The Massacre of the Innocents

NICOLAS BEATRIZET (CIRCA 1507/15-1573) AFTER MARCO DENTE (CIRCA 1486-1527) AFTER BACCIO BANDINELLI (1488-1560) The Massacre of the Innocents engraving, circa 1540-1565, on laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in Circle, a very good impression of the first state (of two), published by Antonio Lafreri, Rome, with his address, trimmed on or just inside the platemark, retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, some minor defects at the sheet edges, a repaired curved tear and small hole at the lower left sheet corner, the tips of the upper and lower right sheet corners made up, a small made-up paper loss at lower centre Plate & Sheet 404 x 570 mm.