May 02, 2019 - Sale 2507

Sale 2507 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Martyrdom of St. John.

Woodcut, 1498. 392x282 mm; 15 1/2x11 1/8 inches. A very good, dark impression from the 1511 Latin text edition, with strong contrasts. High crown watermark (Meder 259, which he dates from the late 1400s to the early 1500s). From the Apocalypse. With thread margins or trimmed on the border line, with parts of the border line preserved on all sides. Bartsch 61; Meder 164.