(attrib.) Gregor Fentzel (aka Gregorius Fentzel) (fl.
1640–1660)
“Winter” (aka “Hyems”; “Hiems Aeolos”; “Aeolian Winter”), c1650, from
the series of four plates published in Nuremburg, “The Four Seasons”,
after Adriaen Collaert’s (c1560–1618) engraving in the same
direction, c1587–88, after the design by Maarten de Vos (aka Maarten de
Vos; Maerten de Vos) (1532–1603).
Engraving on fine laid paper with replenished areas of the margins and
backed with a support sheet.
Size: (support sheet) 37 x 43.2 cm; (sheet) 24.8 x 31.2 cm; (plate) 21.4
x 26.7 cm; (image borderline) 19.2 x 26.3 cm.
Lettered in plate below the image borderline in two columns of two
lines of German.
Hollstein 1408–1411 copy e (de Vos).
The British Museum offers the following description of Adriaen
Collaert’s engraving of the same design: “Winter: Aeolus holding up a bridle?
and sitting on the four winds in a wintry landscape with a frozen river and
skaters; also figures pollarding trees and slaughtering animals; in the
distance is a storm at sea with boats tossed on the large waves; in the sky the
zodiac symbols of Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces; plate 4; after Maarten de
Vos. Engraving” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1870-0625-673).
Condition: a strong impression with replenished areas in the margin
and laid upon a sheet of millennium quality washi paper providing wide margins.
I am selling this beautiful and graphically animated engraving showing
Aeolus, the mythological King of Aeolia—father of Alcyone (aka the fabled kingfisher)
and protector of her eggs laid in holes by the waterside from storms and wild
seas during what has become known as the “halcyon days” (my apologies for any
misunderstanding about this myth)— sitting on the four winds with the
background showing ice-skaters on a frozen river, peasants slaughtering and the
zodiac signs of Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces, for the total cost of AU$312
(currently US$217.77/EUR201.11/GBP178.01 at the time of this listing) including
postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import
duties/taxes imposed by some countries.
If you are interested in purchasing this rare engraving following the
designs of Adriaen Collaert and Maarten de Vos, please contact me
(oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make
the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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