Property from a Private Collection

HENDRICK GOLTZIUS

1558 - 1617

HERCULES AND CACUS (BARTSCH 231; STRAUSS 403; BIALLER 25II/III)

Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks, printed in black, brown and ochre, 1588, a very good impression🎐, the tone blocks printing richly, though 🃏the line block printing dryly in places, Strauss’s second or third state (of four) (before Janssen’s address or with the address trimmed off), Bialler's I or III states (of VI), printing with very strong relief, unframed

sheet: 413 by 335mm 16¼ by 13⅛in