Lot 334: Hans Sur (active Basel 1578-1609)

Hans Sur (active Basel 1578-1609)
Design for a coat of arms with a sun and an axe-head, surmounted by a helm
signed with monogram 'HS'
pen and black ink, heightened with white on dark red prepared paper
6 1/8 x 5½ cm. (15.5 x 14.2 cm.), irregular

P. Vischer (L. 2115), with his initials 'P.V.' (L. 2116).

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Very similar in style to the coat of arms for Hans Heinrich Stächelin, executed in stained glass by Hans Sur in 1585 (Fig. 1; P.L. Ganz, Die Basler Glasmaler der Spätrenaissance und der Barockzeit, Basel, 1966, p. 168, fig. 54). It is likely therefore that the present drawing was executed at around the same date.