May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Birth of the Virgin.

Woodcut, circa 1503. 298x212 mm; 11 3/4x8 3/8 inches. A very good, richly-inked and dark impression after the 1511 Latin text edition, with strong contrasts. Shield with a diagonal band watermark and the letters FB counter mark (Meder 246, which he dates to around 1600). With thread margins or trimmed on the outer edge of the black border line. Bartsch 80; Meder 192.