The Massacre of the Innocents

Lot n° 11     -  D'après Marco Dente et Baccio Bandinelli
40,4cmx57cm

circa 1540-1565, on laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in Circle, a very good impression of the first state (of two), published by Antonio Lafreri, Rome, with his address, trimmed on or just inside the platemark, retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, some minor defects at the sheet edges, a repaired curved tear and small hole at the lower left sheet corner, the tips of the upper and lower right sheet corners made up, a small made-up paper loss at lower centre