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DÜRER, Albrecht (1471-1528). [The Small Passion. Nuremberg?: first half of the 16th-century].
4°. 36 plates after the Latin text edition of 1511, Meder 125-161, states a, b or c: title woodcut a reversed copy with landscape background (110 x 85mm), 35 woodcuts, some with margins, others trimmed to border (c.135 x 106mm) and tipped by left side onto leaves (181 x 129mm), generally good impressions, a few fragmentary watermarks. (First cut spotted, 8 cuts remargined, tiny nicks or holes in 5 cuts.) 19th-century blue morocco tooled in gilt and blind. Provenance: W.D. (Drugulin?; stamp on some versos).
COMPLETE SERIES of Dürer's Small Passion; it is his most extensive and most unified series, executed with a simpler, more direct treatment of the subject. It was produced at a period of intense involvement with the subject, when he also created his Apocalypse, Life of the Virgin, Large Passion, and engraved Passion series. Here Dürer does not limit himself to the Passion but extends his treatment from the Fall to the Last Judgement. Later impressions continued to be printed during the 16th century and the series was widely copied; Marcantonio Raimondi issued engraved copies, and a Biblia Pauperum printed at Venice by Vavassore in the 1530s was directly inspired by it. Thirty-five of the 37 original woodblocks survive at the British Museum. Two images (Christ's Entry into Jerusalem and Christ Driving the Money-changers from the Temple) are not included in any of Dürer's other Passion series. The present set contains generally good impresions of the 36 plates. Illus. Bartsch 16-52; Meder 125-161.
4°. 36 plates after the Latin text edition of 1511, Meder 125-161, states a, b or c: title woodcut a reversed copy with landscape background (110 x 85mm), 35 woodcuts, some with margins, others trimmed to border (c.135 x 106mm) and tipped by left side onto leaves (181 x 129mm), generally good impressions, a few fragmentary watermarks. (First cut spotted, 8 cuts remargined, tiny nicks or holes in 5 cuts.) 19th-century blue morocco tooled in gilt and blind. Provenance: W.D. (Drugulin?; stamp on some versos).
COMPLETE SERIES of Dürer's Small Passion; it is his most extensive and most unified series, executed with a simpler, more direct treatment of the subject. It was produced at a period of intense involvement with the subject, when he also created his Apocalypse, Life of the Virgin, Large Passion, and engraved Passion series. Here Dürer does not limit himself to the Passion but extends his treatment from the Fall to the Last Judgement. Later impressions continued to be printed during the 16th century and the series was widely copied; Marcantonio Raimondi issued engraved copies, and a Biblia Pauperum printed at Venice by Vavassore in the 1530s was directly inspired by it. Thirty-five of the 37 original woodblocks survive at the British Museum. Two images (Christ's Entry into Jerusalem and Christ Driving the Money-changers from the Temple) are not included in any of Dürer's other Passion series. The present set contains generally good impresions of the 36 plates. Illus. Bartsch 16-52; Meder 125-161.
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