Lot 101
  • 101

Albrecht Dürer

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Albrecht Dürer
  • The Turkish Family (B. 85; M., Holl. 80)
  • Engraving
  • sheet: 111 by 80mm 4 3/8 by 3 1/8 in
Engraving, circa 1496, a very fine, rich Meder a impression, printing with great depth and contrasts, with touches of burr in the draperies and headdresses, on paper with part of a Bull's Head watermark (cf. M. 74)

Condition

Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark (retaining a fillet of paper outside the borderline), in good condition apart from areas of skinning verso, framed.
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