Albrecht Dürer

Engraving, circa 1496, a very good Meder a-b impression, printing with depth and contrast, with many vertical polishing scratches on the pig at right and on the gable

With partial thread margins below and at right, trimmed to or on the platemark elsewhere, two horizontal repaired tears extending along the blank area of the sky (at left and right of the central tree), a couple of short vertical repaired tears above the tree and on the gable, a circa 2cm horizontal repaired tear at right on the ground above the pigs, a 1cm vertical repaired tear at bottom centre to the trough, repairs at corners, a small brown stain at lower left corner and in the sky, a couple of central horizontal folds (mainly visible verso), some thin areas (mainly visible verso), other minor defects, unframed.
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