42. Georg Pencz
(ca. 1500-1550)

Rhetorica

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Pencz, Rhetorica

Rhetorica

Engraving from The Seven Liberal Arts, ca. 1541, 74 x 60 mm., Bartsch 112, Landau 111b only state. Almost-fine impression on laid paper with partial thread margins or trimmed on the platemark; a narrow strip restored along the lower left edge and the tip of the lower left corner, and two vertical creases flattened. The print shown in The Illustrated Bartsch is a copy (according to Landau); this is the original. Rather than a scroll, Rhetorica is accompanied here by books.