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„Memorial procession in honour of emperor Charles V – La magnifica e suntuosa pompa funerale, fatta in Burselle il di XXIX di decembre, l’anno M.D.LVII nell’essequie dello nuittissimo Carolo quinto“
Antwerp, Christoph Plantin & Hieronymus Cock, 1559 (Italian edition)
without title, (4), (4), (2) pp. (a total of 10 textpages with woodcut frames), with 3 copper plates, 32 numbered copper plates (1 folded), additionally 1 plate of the Spanish edition „Los senores de los consejos de Espana y de Italia“ from the second edition „Amplissimo hoc apparatu et pulchro ordine pompa funebris Bruxellis ...“ from 1616.
Roll (approx. 12 metres), some plates with partly backed tears, browned. - an old handwritten note on the plate with regalia and coat of arms of Charles V on the reverse: „Kaissers Karl des funffen begrebnes so sein son / Konig philips on hispanien zu brusell in brobant gehalten (?)“

Provenance

private property, Austria

Literature

cf. Henk Nalis, The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700. The Van Doetecum Family, The Antwerp Years 1554-1575, vol. I, Rotterdam 1998, p. 67-77, no. 84-117
cf. exhibition catalogue Kaiser Karl V.: Macht und Ohnmacht Europas, Wilfried Seipel (ed.), Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, 2000, p. 351f.

Estimate: € 1.000 - 2.000
Result: € 5.760 (incl. fees)
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