GEORG PENCZ_x001D_ Nürnberg um 1500 - 1550 Le... Lot n° 42

GEORG PENCZ_x001E_ Nuremberg around 1500 - 1550 Leipzig The storming of Cartagena. The troops of Scipio Africanus conquer the Spanish city. Copper engraving after a lost drawing by Giulio Romano 1539. Bartsch 86. Landau 108, V (of VI). Hollstein 76, VI (from VII). - With the monogram, signature, date (misspelled), place name "Nurnberg", publisher's address of Giovanni Battista de Rossi (Milan), the deleted address of Nic. van Aelst (Rome) and name in the plate. On laid paper with multi-pointed, unidentified watermark. 41.6 x 55.1 cm. With smoothed centerfold. Weakly spotted, with short marginal crease marks and isolated tiny worm traces at the wide margin. [bg]