GEORG PENCZ (1500-1550)
Georg Pencz (1500-1550) - Deadly sins: Superbia / Description: The seven deadly sins: Superbia (Pride). Whole-length female figure in contemporary dress, in frontal view, the head in profile to left; with peacock-feather wings and holding a mirror; at left a horse; lettered in lower margin: '(SU)PERBIA OMNES DESPICIO' . From a series of seven engravings. c.1541. made by: Georg Pencz / Dimensions: 8,15 x 5,30 cm A very good impression trimmed just within borderline on a dense laid paper from the period. / Literature: Landau 1978 / Catalogo completo dell' opera grafica di Georg Pencz (97) --- Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (108) --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VIII.351.98)
