Lot 5
  • 5

Albrecht Dürer

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Albrecht Dürer
  • The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (B. 117; M., Holl. 218)
  • woodcut
  • sheet: 388 by 280mm 15 1/4 by 11in
Woodcut, 1497, a very good Meder b impression

Condition

Trimmed on the borderline, just within at the bottom of the right sheet edge, the sheet adhered to the backboard at three corners (the verso only partially examined), otherwise apparently in good condition apart from a tiny touched-in spot in the robe of the turbaned figure far left, unframed. (Two printer's creases in the sky towards the right sheet edge.)
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