Description: Source unknown, to be determined. State: Only state. Ref: Hollstein 159.
Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Lucas Kilian ' after own design. Lucas / Lukas Kilian (1579-1637) and Wolfgang Kilian (1581-1662) were German painters, designers and etcher/engravers from Augsburg of mostly religious subjects and portraits. Sons of the Silezian jeweler and engraver Bartholomaus Kilian, the first of a lineage of engravers and publishers. As their father died early on and his mother remarried with the Antwerp painter Dominique Kustos / Domenicus Custos / de Coster or Custodis (c. 1550-1612), they received much of their artistic training from him. They travelled and worked in Venice.
Subject: Antique Master Print, titled: 'Serenissimus Princeps ac Dominus, Dn. Christianus Marchio Brandeb. Boruss. Stetin. Pomer. Cassub. Vandal. Siles. Carn. & Dux, Burgr. Norib. Princ. Rug &c.' - Portrait of Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.
Condition: Good, given age. No margins, a small rusthole left of the center of the image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 13.3 x 20 cm. The image size is ca. 13.3 x 20 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 5.2 x 7.9 inch. The image size is ca. 5.2 x 7.9 inch.
Medium: Engraving on laid paper. Watermark: Double Bishop's mitre. (=period)
Location: TPCLA-C10-22
SKU: 51914
Section: LATPC-MASTERPRINTS
