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Grien Head of Saturn Lithograph

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Grien Head of Saturn Lithograph
Reference #: ULXX9188
Artist Name: Grien, Hans Baldung
Title: Head of Saturn
Medium: Lithograph
Edition Size: Unknown
Year: Unknown
Paper Size: 23.5 x 17.75 inches
Image Size: 13 x 10 inches
Condition: A: Mint
Notes: Drawings by German Masters of the XV-XVIII Centuries. From a selection of 21 facsimiles of the originals preserved in the Albertina Collection in Vienna. With an introduction and descriptive text by Campbell Dodgson, M.A, C.B.E. Edited in English by Dodgson, keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum.
Published in London by BT Batsford Ltd, 94, High Holborn in 1930.
The edition for the British Empire and the United States of America is limited to 125 copies.
All rights of this work are the property of Anton Schroll & Co who are publishers of the German Edition. Printed in Austria.

Plate #5 "Head of Saturn". Study of an aged, weather beaten face, with long thin hair, interpreted, whether by the artist or another as the planet - God Saturn.
The original was done in black chalk, signed with the monogram and dated 1516. At the top is written "Saturno L."