Lot 18
  • 18

Albrecht Dürer

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Saint Jerome in his Study (B. 60; M., Holl. 59)
  • engraving
  • Sheet: 244 by 186mm; 9 5/8 by 7¼in
Engraving, 1514, a Meder a-b impression before the scratches in the ceiling and above the door of the small chest

Provenance

Ex coll. Thomas P. Bishop (not in Lugt)

Condition

Trimmed to or on the borderline (just within in a few places), small paper loss at lower right corner, some pale foxmarks, a small 12mm tear (backed with a thin sheet of japan paper) in the ceiling, occasional small repaired tears and nicks along edges of the sheet, three horizontal folds mainly visible verso, thin areas mainly at corners only visible verso, unframed.
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