Persian Scholar. XVth Century. In rich costume standing from front with scroll in the right. Colored woodcut by the Xylographic Institute of Hugo Kaeseberg (1847 Grimma 1893) after Alois Greil (Linz 1841 – Vienna 1902). C. 1877/84. Inscribed: HKbg. XJ / A Greil (18)77, otherwise as above. 19.5 x 10.7 cm.
From Lipperh. Ad 46. – LEAVES OF COSTUME KNOWLEDGE, N.S. 74. – “Of not unessential importance finally is G.’s activity as draughtsman for woodcut …” (Thieme-Becker XIV, 1921, pp. 584 f.).
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