ALBRECHT DÜRER | St. Jerome in Penitence (Bartsch 61; Meder, Hollstein 57)

Engraving, circa 1496, a very good Meder b impression, printing with clarity, on paper with a Gothic P watermark (M. 321)

Trimmed to or just within the subject, the sheet backed with Japan paper, an approx. 7mm strip at the lower sheet edge detached and repaired, a repaired loss at the lower sheet edge and a repaired area at the upper sheet edge, other smaller repairs, small splits and losses (mostly at the sheet edges), pale staining at lower right of the image, a couple of linear white accretions (Japan fibres?) in the trees, two central horizontal creases, other minor defects, unframed.
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