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GIULIO BONASONE (CIRCA 1500/10-1574) AFTER GIULIO ROMANO (1499-1549)
Flora with her Nymphs
engraving, circa1531-50, on laid paper, watermark Crossbow in a Circle (probably Massari 4; Woodward 216; first recorded 1542), a fine impression of the first state (of two), printing with a light plate tone and many horizontal wiping marks
Plate & Sheet 335 x 433 mm.
Provenance
With C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf (catalogue Landschaft & Architektur, 2002, no. 10).
Eric G. Stanley (1913-2018), Oxford; acquired from the above in November 2002.
Literature
Bartsch XV.142.111; Massari 66a
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Lot Essay

This is an impression of the first state (of two), although Massari and Boerner describe it erroneously as the second state (of three). Bartsch records only two states: the present first state; and the second state with the publisher Lafreri's address added below Bonasone's name.

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