Lot 144: Gillis van Breen, after Karel van Mander, ca.1600

From the Proverbs after Karel van Mander; copper engraving, Plate 4: The wisdom of fools; three fools sitting together, one has thick-rimmed glasses and has an owl perched on his wrist; first state with Latin text; after Karel van Mander, ca.1592. Lettered with two columns of Latin, each four lines "Cuique suum pulchrum ... pensat". Numbered in lower left. Hollstein 66 (as van Breen); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 98.I (Karel van Mander (as workshop of Goltzius). Plate impression 9-3/4" x 6-7/8". "