Daniel Hopfer

A fine, strong impression of this very rare print, printing darkly and suffused with burr in the grass in the foreground. Before the Funck number, first state (of two), trimmed on the platemark, fractionally slightly within. There is no known literary reference to the scene depicted. According to Metzger, it is, in the broadest sense, a parody of the topos of "women's power". Even the devil cannot resist the combined power of these three furies. Hopfer probably based the design of his fantastical body on engravings by Martin Schongauer (The Temptation of St Anthony and St Michael). – A small, inconspicuous tear on the upper edge. The paper is slightly thinned in three places on the reverse due to previous mounting. A smoothed horizontal centrefold; slightly brown-stained, maily on the reverse, with traces and remnants of previous mounting; otherwise in good condition.