Lot Essay
Bartsch 94; Meder, Hollstein 206
The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin
Details
Albrecht Drer
The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin
woodcut, 1510, from the set of twenty, a very good Meder b impression before the 1511 edition, watermark Bull's Head (M. 62), trimmed unevenly to and in places just within the borderline, a central horizontal crease partly touched-in and with one or two associated tiny made-up areas, a few additional touches of pen and ink mainly on the left borderline, a tiny rust spot on the robe of the central kneeling man
S. 288 x 206mm.
The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin, from The Life of the Virgin
woodcut, 1510, from the set of twenty, a very good Meder b impression before the 1511 edition, watermark Bull's Head (M. 62), trimmed unevenly to and in places just within the borderline, a central horizontal crease partly touched-in and with one or two associated tiny made-up areas, a few additional touches of pen and ink mainly on the left borderline, a tiny rust spot on the robe of the central kneeling man
S. 288 x 206mm.
Provenance
H. Lempertz Sr. (L. 1337)