A Small World
Prints by the "Little Masters" of the Sixteenth Century
Prints by the "Little Masters" of the Sixteenth Century
- Aldegrever, Rhea Silvia
- Aldegrever, Dancing Couple
- Aldegrever , Ornament with Female Centaur
- Altdorfer , Neptune
- Altdorfer, Christ Shown
- Anonymous, Ornament with an Owl and Two Putti
- Beham, Madonna and Child
- Beham, Saint Christopher
- Beham, The Penance
- Beham, Christ and the Woman
- Beham, St. Matthew
- Beham, Cimon and Pero
- Beham, Cimon and Pero
- Beham, Hercules Battling Centaurs
- Beham, Hercules Slaying Nessus
- Beham, Hercules Killing Cacus
- Beham, Hercules Slaying Antaeus
- Beham, Infortunium (Misfortune)
- Beham, Triumphal Procession of the Noble
- Beham, The Peasants' Brawl
- Beham, Peasant Couple
- Beham, Market Peasant
- Beham, Standard Bearer
- Beham, Eight Nude Boys
- Beham, The Little Buffoon
- Beham, Ornament
- Beham, Triumphal Procession of Children
- Beham, Female Genius
- Binck , Genius on a Sea Monster
- Binck , The Fifer
- Binck/Brun, Foot Soldier
- Brosamer, The Kiss
- Brun, Urania
- Brun, October
- Brun, November
- Delaune, Combat d'Enfants
- Master I. B. , Battle of the Gladiators
- Pencz, Conversion of Saul
- Pencz, Woman with a Harp
- Pencz, Grammatica
- Pencz, Dialectica
- Pencz, Rhetorica
- after Pencz, Story of Abraham
- Sonnius, Ornament with a Motto
Genius on a Sea Monster
Engraving, 40 x 30 mm. Bartsch 47, Hollstein 105, ex collection: Friedrich August II of Saxony (Lugt 971). Fine impression on laid paper, trimmed on the platemark but showing the borderline all around. The work is a reverse copy of a print by H. S. Beham, not at all an unusual thing as some eighty of Binck's ca. 240 prints were after works by Schongauer, Dürer, the Behams and others. The reason? Binck worked in Cologne and traveled extensively in northern Europe, including Scandinavia, all far from Nuremberg. But the same images that could find a market in southern Germany might also find a market elsewhere and so Binck, who was as skilled as most of his Little Master colleagues, copied them and supplied that market. He was far from alone in that kind of entrepreneurship.