Half-length portrait of Johann Boschenstain (Boschenstein), with Hebrew legend below. Etching. With engraver’s monogram “I. H.”
AUCTION 54 |
Wednesday, March 21st,
2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 303
HOPFER, HIERONYMUS (1500-1550).
Half-length portrait of Johann Boschenstain (Boschenstein), with Hebrew legend below. Etching. With engraver’s monogram “I. H.”
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Boschenstein (1472-1540) was a German Hebraist and professor of Hebrew language at the University of Wittenberg.
Other examples of this early Hebrew etching are held by the German National Museum in Nurnberg and the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig.