Giulio Bonasone (1500-1574) Lot n° 34

Giulio Bonasone (1500-1574) - Allegory of the rising sun / Description: Allegory of the rising sun, a naked man is being drawn by horses accompanied elderly winged father time, at the bottom right are waking figures Engraving made by Giulio Bonasone and thought to be of his own invention. / Dimensions: 24,00 x 35,00 cm Good, delicate printed impressions, all on their full little sheet of watermarked paper with full plate border and good margins. Margins with remains of album tipping at corners. Uniform series with no folds, tears or stains. On stone at bottom right 'Jvlio Bonasone inventore' an below his monogram 'IVB'. This is a third state on four with the added monogram of Bonasone and with the publishers address of Jacomo Rossi. / Literature: Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XV.138.99) --- Massari 1983 / Giulio Bonasone (220a)