The Massacre of the Innocents

MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI (1480-1534) AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520) The Massacre of the Innocents engraving, circa 1513, on laid paper, watermark Anchor in a Circle surmounted by a Star (not in Woodward; similar to Briquet 492, first recorded in Lucca, 1522), a fine impression of this rare and important print, the second version of this subject without the fir tree, printing clearly and with good contrasts, an inky plate edge above, trimmed to or just inside the platemark above and below, fractionally trimmed inside the subject on the sides Sheet 275 x 420 mm.