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Property from a Private Austrian Collection

Albrecht Dürer

The Whore of Babylon (Bartsch 73; Meder, Hollstein 177)

Lot Closed

July 9, 01:01 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Austrian Collection

Albrecht Dürer

1471 - 1528

The Whore of Babylon (Bartsch 73; Meder, Hollstein 177)


Woodcut, circa 1496-97, from The Apocalypse, a very good, black impression from the Latin text edition of 1511, though printing slightly unevenly at left, on paper with a Flower with Triangle watermark (Meder 127), unframed

image: 397 by 285mm 15 1/2 by 11 1/4 in

sheet: 468 by 316mm 18 3/8 by 12 3/8 in