Frieze with six busts

SOLIS, Virgil (Nuremberg? c. 1514 - 1562).
Frieze with six busts.
Engraving and etching, c. 1537-1562
26x153 mm.
Signed with monogram 'V/S' at centre.
Provenance: collectors´ mark of Baron Ludwig Maximilian von Biegeleben (Lugt 385) and a non identified collector´s mark on the verso (Lugt 2930).

Bibliography:
Bartsch IX.302.458
Hollstein 351.II
O´Dell-Franke 1977 h.76

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These Virgil Solis designs are reverse copies of Heinrich Vogtherr's Kunstbüchlein woodcuts, the first printed model book for artists published in 1537