Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Babylonian Whore.

Woodcut, 1498. 395x282 mm; 15 1/2x11 1/8 inches, thread margins. A very good, well-inked impression from the 1511 Latin text edition, with strong contrasts. Tower with a crown watermark (Meder 259). From the Apocalypse. Bartsch 73; Meder 177.