Lot Essay
Bartsch 93; Meder, Hollstein 205
The Death of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin
Details
Albrecht Drer
The Death of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin
woodcut, 1510, from the set of twenty, a fine, black Meder b impression before the 1511 edition, watermark Bull's Head (M. 66), trimmed to the borderline, the lower left corner made up (not affecting the garment of the kneeling figure), touches of pen and ink on the bedcurtain at the left edge, two old central horizontal creases visible on the reverse, otherwise generally in good condition
S. 287 x 206mm.
The Death of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin
woodcut, 1510, from the set of twenty, a fine, black Meder b impression before the 1511 edition, watermark Bull's Head (M. 66), trimmed to the borderline, the lower left corner made up (not affecting the garment of the kneeling figure), touches of pen and ink on the bedcurtain at the left edge, two old central horizontal creases visible on the reverse, otherwise generally in good condition
S. 287 x 206mm.