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Sleeping lady Justice. Justice asleep; a semi-nude female figure lying asleep with a young boy and a lamb at her side; her feet are tied, her scales destroyed; a wolf carrying off her sword; in the background a view of a large castle, which resembles the one in Nuremberg.
Made by Barthel Beham after own design.
Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 6.8 x 4.4 cm (2.68 x 1.73 inch). Image size: 6.4 x 3.9 cm. (2.52 x 1.54 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Short margins as usual. Paper at top a bit thin. Right top corner margin with paper loss, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
DER WELT LAUF-SLEEPING JUSTICE | PCO-EXPO-301
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Reference: B.39, Pauli 42.II.
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Biography engraver: Barthel Beham (1502-1540) was a German panter, engraver and designer of woodcuts, one of the little Masters. He was possibly trained in the workshop of his elder brother Sebald. Together with his brother Sebald and Georg Pencz he was banished in 1525 from Nuremberg for his radical political views.
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