A short roundup of print news from around the world:
Youenoch has an aminated version of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
Mercuriuspoliticus was delighted to see “The Headless Horseman”, an engraving by Pierre Lombart which underwent some drastic changes.
Clara Lieu spotted the grouchiest looking putto ever in the etching/engraving Allegory of the Arts by the Italian Andrea Giovanni Podesta (1608-~1674).
The iconic woodblock print In the well of the great wave off Kanagawa by Katshushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was sold at Christie’s for $68’500. The equally beautiful The Tama River in Musashi province from the same series Fugaku sanjurokkei (The thirty-six views of Mount Fuji) fetched $5’000.
Edward Sozanski shows us When European prints went supersized.