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ALBRECHT DÜRER The Holy Family with the Butterfly.
Engraving, circa 1495. 236x187 mm; 9 1/4x7 3/8 inches. A superb, richly-inked Meder b-c impression with very strong contrasts, with all the finest lines printing clearly, with little to no sign of wear, with the delicate vertical wiping marks in the sky and the drypoint on the monogram showing and with the scratch above the Virgin's head distinct. Ex-collection Giuseppe Storck, dated 1798 in ink (Lugt 2318, verso); and J. B. E. Gallice, dated 1870 in ink (Lugt 1063, verso). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. Bartsch 44; Meder 42.
