Lot 56: AFTER FRANCESCO SALVIATI

AFTER FRANCESCO SALVIATI 1510 - 1563 ALEXANDER THE GREAT KNEELING BEFORE THE HIGH PRIEST OF AMMON (BARTSCH 22; HIND 27.I) Engraving, circa 1540, a good impression of the first state (of two), before Antonio Salamanca's address, printing with wiping scratches in the sky, on paper with an indistict shape within a Double Circle watermark sheet: 256 by 197mm; 10 by 7¾in

The confirmation that the designer was Salviati came when the preparatory drawing for the priest was sold in these rooms on the 18th of February, 1991, lot 75.