Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 38

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg.

Engraving, 1519. 146x96 mm; 5 3/4x3 7/8 inches. A superb, dark and richly-inked Meder I a impression, with the letetr A in the word PRIMAS (fifth line, last word) still showing the corrected prior letter V, and with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear. Bull's head watermark (Meder 79, which he dates from the late 1400s/early 1500s and notes for the earliest impressions of this subject). Bartsch 102; Meder 100.