Lot 25: Hans Friedrich Schorer , Augsburg circa 1585 - after 1654 a mountainous landscape with travellers, a hill-top castle in the distance Pen and black ink and grey and brown wash, within black ink framing lines; signed with monogram and dated in brown

Pen and black ink and grey and brown wash, within black ink framing lines; signed with monogram and dated in brown ink, lower right: HSF 1612

measurements note 165 by 258 mm

Schorer seems to have trained with his father, Hans Schorer the Younger, who was an established Augsburg artist. His works consist primarily of drawings, usually carefully finished landscape compositions such as this, in some cases with mythological subjects. Schorer also seems to have made designs for goldsmiths' work, but few if any paintings. For further information on the artist, see Heinrich Geissler, Zeichnung in Deutschland, Deutsche Zeichner 1540-1640, exhibition catalogue, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, 1979-80, vol. I, pp. 266-67.