A Collection of Prints

Italian School, 16th and 17th Century A Collection of Prints including Pietro Testa, Socrates at the Table with his Friends (I Sette Saggi della Grecia) (B. 18; Bellini 38), two impressions, state two and three (of six); and nine other prints by the same hand (B. 4, 5, 6, 14, 21, 31, and three impressions of B. 21, including a first state); Agostino Carracci, Perseus and the Dragon (B. 122), Madonna and Child seated on a Crescent Moon (after Jacopo Ligozzi) (B. 34) and Virgin nursing the Christ Child in a Landscape (engraved by Francesco Brizio) (B. 39); Saint Roch giving Alms to the Poor (B. 53) and Four Subjects from the Galleria Farnese after Annibale Carracci; The Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist (cf. B. 3) after Ludovico Carracci; Francesco Curti Madonna and Child with a Book; Marco Ricci, Two Men penitent in the Wilderness (B. 18); and Madonna and Child sitting by a Tree Stump by an unknown hand; most in good condition S. 400 x 499 mm. (23)