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VON DERSCHAU, Baron Hans Albrecht (1755-1824)

Holzschnitte alter Deutscher Meister in den Originalplatten

Gotha
Verlag Becker
1808-1816

€400 - €700

9 woodcuts on 5 leaves from 15/16 century blocks.
1. 'S. Gertrude', woodcut (24 x 21 cm) Leonard Boch (ca. 1480-1542), Hollstein 170.
2. 'Tyrannei und Wucher kämpfen Vernunft, Gerechtigkeit und da Wort Gottes', woodcut (16 x 39 cm) by Peter Flötner (1485-1546).
3. 'Actaeon and Diana in bath', Flemish woodcut ' (31.5 x 48.5 cm).
4. 'S. Christoph (1510)', woodcut (28.5 x 21.5 cm) + 4 smaller woodcuts (7.5 x 6.5 cm) with monogram H.W. in the margin of the large print.
5. 'Absaton', German woodcut (16th century) (16 x 24.5 cm). (5)

Print collector, specialised in amassing early blocks of woodcuts, which he had reprinted between 1808 and 1816 in a series of fascicles published from Gotha ('Holzschnitte alter deutscher Meister in den Originalplatten'). Derschau's first collection was sold en bloc by F.G. Becker to the King of Prussia in 1817 and forms one of the nuclei of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett. His second collection was auctioned after his death in 1825 in 2618 lots

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