May 11, 2023 - Sale 2636

Sale 2636 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Flight into Egypt.

Woodcut, circa 1503. 298x212 mm; 11 3/4x8 3/8 inches, thread margins. A very good, dark impression from soon after the 1511 Latin text edition, with strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear. Bishop's coat-of-arms watermark (Meder 39, which he dates from circa 1540-50).

Provenance: William Bell Scott, London, with his ink stamp twice verso (Lugt 2607).

Bartsch 89; Meder 201.