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An anonymous woodcut depicting a scene from Virgil's Aeneid, 1st quarter 16th C.

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This lot was sold on 2021-10-08 and is no longer available

Dim.: 64 x 53 cm (the frame)
Dim.: 18,5 x 17 cm (the visible size of the work)

Ref.: A woodcut illustration from the 'Strasbourg Vergil', edited by Sebastian Brant: Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera cum quinque vulgatis commentariis expolitissimisque figuris atque imaginibus nuper per Sebastianum Brant superadditis (Printed in Strasbourg by Johannis Grieninger, 1502),v, executed by an anonymous engraver under the direction of Brant. See the catalogue entre in the university library of Heidelberg. (link)