Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
16 March 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/636
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tot 154— continued, lance, of which the point is in the throat of the dragon below his horse’s feet. In the background on the left the princess kneels, with a little dog attached to her girdle bya leash. In the right hand corner is a castle, and the heads of the kingand queen are seen above the walls. |The whole foreground and spaces ERR of the background are studded with tufts of herbage. At the bottom is the inscription, “Scis georgi’ I. R.”.. Round all is an elaborate border, the bottom and two sides containing a hurting scene where two men with horns and three dogs are hunting a boar, a stag, a dragon and a lion, amongst trees. The upper portion depicts the walls of a city with towers and acentral turretted gateway. II. Panel. The Baptism of Christ. On the right hand kneels St. John Baptist, and with his right hand pours water upon the head of Christ who stands in the stream in the centre. On the left is an angel holding a robe. Over their heads is a scroll inscribed : Hic est filius meus dilect’. and above this a half-length figure of the Almighty amidst stars, the right hand raised in blessing, the left holding an orb. Below Him is the Holy Dove, and over all an arch resting on two brackets. The border contains, on the right side an eagle, on the left a wyvern, at top a dog, and at bottom two dogs, all between sprays of foliage with fruit and flowers, and a quatrefoil in each corner. ** [Good impressions of both panels. The leather slightly defective where the clasps have gone from the upper cover. In a padded case. | 155 Savonarola (H.) Triumphus crucis (two woodcuts) 8vo. Alexander de Bindoms. Venice, 1521 Brown calf. Two panels. Four bands. Binder B. K. I. Panel. The Annunciation. The Virgin kneels on the right before a desk, and is looking towards a kneeling angel on the left who holds a wand with a lily at the top and entwined with a ribbon. Above the angel is the Holy Dove. The background is sprinkled with flowers, and over all is an elaborate canopy. The picture is sur- rounded with a border containing sprays and branches of fruit. In the centre of each side is a wyvern, and at top and bottom a bird. In each corner is a quatrefoil. II. Panel. The Adoration of the Magi. On the right the Virgin with the Child is seated below a rough roof. Joseph stands behind, and in the lower corner are two oxen. On the left before the Virgin are the three kings, each holding gifts ; one kneeling in front, the other two standing behind. In the left background isa tree. Round all B x R is a border containing at the sides an owl between | sprays of foliage, and at top and bottom a formal re- naissance ornament. The binder’s mark and initials . B. K. are between. the two standing kings. ** [Rebacked and the border somewhat defective and repaired, but fine and clean impressions of the two panels. In a padded case. A Cologne binding. |] 9
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