Allegorical Scene With Six Figures in a Landscape. [A Man Blowing Two Trumpets].Original Etching. de Hopfer, Hieronymus. [After Marcantonio Raimondi, after Raphael] - c1528-1563.

[German:]: [David Funck,], c1528-1563.. 8.75 x 6.25 inches. Excellent impression, original etching plate, small clean tear top right corner, repaired, no affect, some remnants of mounting tape at edges on back, no affect to front, minor soiling at bottom edge, no affect, overall s beautiful piece, rare. Signed in the plate ÔI.H.Õ at center, Funck number Ô78Õ at lower left. Allegorical scene, copy reverse after Marcantonio Raimondi, after Raphael (Bartsch XIV.272.356); male figure blowing two trumpets, another carrying a slab of stone, two figures at right holding a speher and two figures on left looking on, impression from the Funck series. [See BM description]. Hieronymus Hopfer (c1500-1550), German etcher, son of Daniel Hopfer and brother of Lambert Hopfer, worked with his father to recreate prints by etching. Daniel Hopfer is believed to be the first to utilizing etching in printmaking. Little is known of Hieronymus, most of his works were published copies after Germans such as Durer and Cranach, and Italians as Barberi and Campagnola. Marcantonio Raimondi (c1480-1534), Italian engraver, began engraving copies of Durer in Venice c1506-08, for which Durer famously brought legal charges against him. After 1506, Raimondi primarily engraed designs of Raphael and his circle. BM: 1845, 0809.1460. Hollstein 46.11. Bartsch VIII. 517.41 Bartsch XIV.272.356