Nov 12, 2020 - Sale 2550

Sale 2550 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ALBERCHT DÜRER
Coat-of-Arms with a Skull.

Engraving, 1503. 215x154 mm; 8 1/2x6 1/8 inches, thread margins. Second state (of 2), with the scratch between the ground and the lowest arc of the helmet foliage to the right of the shield. A very good, dark and well-inked Meder II a impression with strong contrasts. Ex-collection Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606 and 2398, verso). Bartsch 101; Meder 98.