Heinrich Aldegrever (1501-1555)
Heinrich Aldegrever (1501-1555) - Death and the Cardinal / Description: The Power of Death/ Allegory of Original Sin and Death: Death and the Cardinal; the cardinal seated at right, presented with a sealed bull by a messenger at left; Death holding an hourglass standing behind the cardinal; from a series of eight engravings. 1541 / Dimensions: 7,80 x 5,00 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 (140) --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VIII.405.140) --- 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.
