Lot 13
  • 13

Albrecht Dürer

Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Melencolia I (B. 74; M., Holl. 75)
  • Engraving
  • Sheet: 240 by 188mm; 9 3/8 by 7 3/8 in
Engraving, 1514, a very good, early impression, printing with depth and contrasts, with the horizontal scratch above the nails and through the sphere

Provenance

Ex coll. Ferdinand of Portugal (L. 968); Anthony Cesare de Poggi (L. 617); Hermann Weber (L. 1383); a duplicate from the Art Institute of Chicago (L. 32b and L. 702h)

Condition

Trimmed 1-2mm within the image at top (very slightly re-margined with a pen and ink borderline), trimmed outside the borderline elsewhere, with a 12mm and a 7mm horizontal tear at right edge of sheet (at centre and just below respectively), a minute tear at upper right corner, a small brown stain on subject's face, central horizontal folds mainly visible verso, thin areas along upper edge of sheet, other minor defects mainly along edges of sheet, otherwise in good condition, unframed.
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