GIORGIO GHISI

Allegorical Figure Holding a Sphere, after GIULIO ROMANO ca. 1565


engraving; 244 x 154 mm (plate), 266 x 172 mm (sheet)

Bartsch, vol. 15, p. 399, no. 34; Lewis/Lewis 38 (only state)

WATERMARK
fleur-de-lys on three mounds in circle (cf. Heawood 1460: Rom 1650); cf. Lewis/Lewis, p. 218, no. 23

LITERATURE
Suzanne Boorsch, Michal and R.E. Lewis, The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi, exhibition catalogue St. Louis Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, New York 1985.