Nov 04, 2004 - Sale 2020

Sale 2020 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
Emperor Maximilian I.

Woodcut, 1519. 416x322 mm; 163/8x123/4 inches, wide margins. Third state (of 4). A very good Meder ii b impression, with the break in the right margin. Crest of Bavaria watermark (Meder 198, which he dates to circa 1600). A very good, evenly printed impression of this large, scarce print.

According to Meder, the architectural framing device is by Hans Weiditz. This impression would have been issued after 1519, the year of Maximilian's death. Bartsch 154; Meder 255.