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Albrecht Dürer

Melencolia I (B.74; M., Holl.75)

engraving, 1514, an extremely fine, silvery Meder IIa impression, displaying great clarity and excellent contrasts, with part of a High Crown watermark (M.20) (?), trimmed just inside the platemark, retaining a fillet of blank paper beyond the borderline almost all round (partly made-up at center left edge), the extreme tip of the upper left corner made-up, a repaired nick at the upper right sheet edge, very minor residual glue-staining and a narrow strip of thin tape in plcaes along the reverse sheet edges, generally in excellent condition
S.240 x 187mm.
Provenance
Rijkoprentenkabinet Amsterdam, duplicate (L.240)
Unidentified collector's stamp, initial L (not in L)
J.H. Wrem (L.1475)

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