Heinrich Aldegrever (1501-1555)
Heinrich Aldegrever (1501-1555) - Adam ploughing wit death / Description: The Power of Death/ Allegory of Original Sin and Death: Adam ploughing; together with Death as a skeleton in left foreground; at right Eve nursing a child; from a series of eight engravings. 1541. / Dimensions: 7,80 x 5,10 cm Good contrasted impression in very good condition. On laid paper with tread margins, on plate border at left. / Literature: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (138) --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VIII.405.138) --- Made by Aldegrever after a selection of Holbein's woodcut to 'Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort ...', M. and G. Trechsel for Frellon at Lyon, 1538.
