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AGOSTINO VENEZIANO (1490-1540) AFTER MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (1480-1534) AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)
Hercules and Anthaeus
engraving, circa 1525-30, on laid paper, watermark Angel carrying a Palm surmounted by a Star (Massari 81), a fine impression of the first state (of two), before Salamanca's address, printing strongly and with wiping marks in places
Sheet 287 x 215 mm.
Provenance
Josef Grünling (d. 1846), Vienna (Lugt 1463); his sale, Weigel, Leipzig, 13 December (or November) 1824, lot 63.
Sotheby's, London, 18 June 1982, lot 670.
Eric G. Stanley (1923-2018), Oxford; acquired from the above sale (through Artemis Fine Arts, London).
Literature
Bartsch 347
Special notice
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Massari records the present watermark in her catalogue raisonné of Giulio Bonasone's prints and dates it to the 16th century. It is not recorded in Briquet, Heawood and Woodward.

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