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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER St. John Devouring the Book.
Woodcut, 1498. 390x280 mm; 15 1/2x11 1/8 inches, narrow to small margins. A brilliant, early and richly-inked proof impression before the 1498 and 1511 text editions, with very strong contrasts, no sign of wear and with the relief from the block distonct on the verso. Ex-collection August Artaria (Lugt 33, verso). From the Apocalypse.
Meder does not locate any proof impressions before text of this subject; we have not found another proof impression at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 70; Meder 172.
