Lot 14
  • 14

Albrecht Dürer

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Albrecht Dürer
  • The Cook and his Wife (B. 84; M., Holl. 85)
  • ENGRAVING
  • sheet: 110 by 79mm 4 3/8 by 3 1/8 in
Engraving, circa 1496, a good, Meder c-d impression, still printing with depth and contrasts

Provenance

An unidentified collector's mark Initials 'KK' (not in L.)

Condition

Trimmed just outside the borderline, in good condition apart from pale paper discoloration, very minor thinning at the lower sheet corners, residual hinging at the upper and right sheet edges verso, unframed.
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