DELAUNE Etienne (Paris or Orléans c.1518 † Strasbourg c.1583) - "Sujets variés". Complete suite of 12 etching and burin prints. Single state proofs, on laid paper, formerly cut inside the copperplate mark (sometimes even to the subject or fillet) and mounted on cream laid paper. Ref: Robert-Dumesnil, n°237 to 248. Each subject bears the artist's initial. Subjects depicted: A Roman soldier haranguing before a prince; The Romans declaring dictator Q. Cincinnatus; A man wearing a turban; Young Atys inadvertently killed; Diana and her nymphs discovering Callisto's pregnancy; Scipio's continence... 3 x 4 cm approx. each plate (round or oval subjects). 35 x 30cm for the sheet. Condition B.