Beschreibung:

Aldegrever (Heinrich, circa 1502 – 1555/61). The Fight with the Nemean Lion, 1550, engraving on laid paper, a good impression, trimmed to the subject (just within at right), a few small brown stains, together with plates 3 and 10 from The Large Wedding Dancers (1538), engravings on laid paper, plate 10 a fine, clear impression, trimmed on the platemark, plate 3 a good but later impression, with a thread margin at left and top, otherwise trimmed on the platemark, plus The Robbers Attacking, and The Good Samaritan putting the Traveller on his Donkey (plates 1 and 3 from The Good Samaritan series, 1554), engravings on laid paper, each trimmed to the subject, retaining the text beneath, and The Story of Lot, 1555, the set of four, on laid paper, very good to late impressions, plates 1 and 3 with one or two thread margins, the rest trimmed to the subject, plus other similar engravings on laid paper: The Annunciation, 1553, a fairly good impression, trimmed to the subject, The Temptation of Adam and Eve, 1540, a slightly later impression, trimmed on the borderline, Envy (from The Virtues and Vices), 1552, a late impression, with thread margins or trimmed on the platemark, The Rape of a Woman by a Satyr, 1553, on laid paper with a double headed Eagle and Shield watermark, a later impression, with margins, a further late impression of Hollstein 14, stained, a short tear tear upper right, a copy ‘a’ of Hollstein 32, generally in good condition, minor defects, largest sheet 15.5 x 11 cm (6 1/8 x 4 3/8 ins), smallest sheet 8.8 x 6.4 cm (3 1/2 x 1/2 ins) Provenance: The Temptation of Adam and Eve: Georg Hamminger, his stamp verso (Lugt 1159); Lot and his Daughters, plate IV: Graphische Sammlung, Munich, their stamp verso (Lugt 2397). Literature: Hollstein 3 (The Temptation of Adam and Eve), 14-17 (The Story of Lot), 38 (The Annunciation), 67 (The Rape of a Woman by a Satyr), 84 (The Fight with the Nemean Lion), 162 and 169 (The Large Wedding Dancers), 40, 42 (The Good Samaritan), 125 (Envy), and copy ‘a’ of Hollstein 32.