Nov 03, 2015 - Sale 2396

Sale 2396 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
Beast with the Horns Like a Lamb.

Woodcut, 1498. 393x280 mm; 15 1/2x11 1/8 inches, narrow to thread margins. A superb, richly-inked, dark impression from the 1511 Latin text edition, with very strong contrasts. Shovel with a flower watermark (Meder 127, which he dates from the late 1400s/early 1500s). From the Apocalypse. Bartsch 74; Meder 175.