ALBRECHT ALTDORFER ( c.1480-1538) The Virgin and child in a ...

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ALBRECHT ALTDORFER ( c.1480-1538) The Virgin and child in a landscape circa 1515, engraving, 16.5cm x 12cm (B17); LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER (c. 1472-1553) "The Penance of St. Chrysostom" circa 1509, engraving, 26cm x 20.5cm (BI); and two etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) after Holbein, an unidentified man and Lady Butts (4) (all unframed)

Provenance: Kerrison Preston Esq. and by descent

Provenance: (for the engraving by Altdorfer)
King Frederick August II of Saxony (1797-1854), Dresden. (Lugt 971 & 972)
According to Lugt, King Frederick August II assembled a collection of around 110,000 prints, many of which were acquired from leading collection sales in the 19th century including the Schwarzenberg sale in 1826, Einsiedel in 1833, Sternberg-Manderscheid in 1836 & 1845, von Rumohr in 1846, Verstolk in 1847-1851 and Otto-Clauss in Leipzig in 1851-52. The king also bought from R. Weigel and other dealers. The collection was housed in a building on the Bruhlsche Terrace in Dresden, next to the Academy of Fine Arts. See J. G. A. Frenzel, Die Kupferstich-Sammlung Friedrich August II, Leipzig 1854, and König Friedrich August als Kunstfreund und Kunstsammler. Another impression is in the State Art Collection, Dresden (SKD) inventory number A 1911-232 - without Royal Saxon collector’s mark.

The portrait of Lady Butts, after Holbein, is now in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (no. P21e2). That portrait (& her husband Sir William Butts) were sold by the Pole-Carew family of Antony House, Cornwall in 1899.