May 01, 2008 - Sale 2144

Sale 2144 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seal.

Woodcut, 1496-98. 390x280 mm; 15 3/8x11 1/8 inches, narrow to thread margins. A very good, well-inked impression from the 1511 Latin text edition with strong contrasts, showing very few signs of wear and with the middle printing strongly and clearly. Ex-collection the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with their duplicate ink stamp (Lugt 1868, verso). Bartsch 67; Meder 176.