Nov 02, 2017 - Sale 2460

Sale 2460 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 10,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Flight into Egypt.

Woodcut, circa 1503. 298x212 mm; 11 3/4x8 3/8 inches. A superb, dark and richly-inked Meder b proof impression before the 1511 Latin text edition, with strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear. Bull's head watermark (Meder 62, which he dates from the late 1400s). With thread margins or trimmed on the outside of the black border line. Bartsch 89; Meder 201.