Rare Antique Print-SAINT MARY MAGDALENE-SKULL-Engelbrecht-c.1730

‘S. Maria Magdalena.’

Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 11 x 6,5 cm. (4,3 x 2,6 inch). Image size: x cm. (0 x 0 inch).

Source unknown, to be determined. Provenance: Ex. Coll. Georg Denzel (collection mark: G+W D in circle; not in Lugt).

Made by ‘Martin Engelbrecht’ after an anonymous artist. Martin Engelbrecht (1684, Augsburg ? 1756, Augsburg), a German Baroque engraver and publisher. He began his career as an artist by the attachment to a local publishing house but had by 1708 moved to Berlin where he was engaged in the designs after Eosander von Goethe of a the Silberb?fett im Ritterall at Berlin and of a porcelain cabinet in Charlotttenberg. Returning to Augsburg he was involved in illustrating a wide variety of works after various artist mainly on subjects connected with the decorative arts. However in 1711 Engelbrecht was again in Berlin working at a fine art publishers with his older brother Christian Engelbrecht (1672-1735). They decided to start their own independent publishing house at Augsburg in 1719 where they produce a wide variety of graphic works.

Condition: Very good, given age. Plate trimmed. Some soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: SAINT MARY MAGDALENE-SKULL

coll. Rb202102 (Rbos-A5-17)