Lot 9
  • 9

Albrecht Dürer

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Albrecht Dürer
  • Five Soldiers and a Turk on Horseback (B. 88; M., Holl. 81)
  • Engraving
  • plate: 132 by 147mm 5 1/4 by 5 3/4 in
Engraving, circa 1495, a good Meder a impression before the two arc-shaped scratches through the halberd and one extending through the monogram to the foot of the halberdier, framed

Provenance

Ex coll. Conte G. Archinto (L. 546)

Condition

Trimmed just within the platemark and remargined (pen and ink borderline), a vertical repaired tear at centre of upper edge sheet (measuring circa 10cm), other minor repairs, backed with a thin sheet of Japan, framed.
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