May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 9

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand.

Woodcut, 1497. 385x280 mm; 15 1/4x11 1/8 inches. A very good, evenly-inked and dark Meder c-d impression, with little to no wear in the composition and with strong contrasts and with the relief from the block visible on the verso. Fleur-de-lys in a circle watermark (Meder 119, which he dates from the mid-1500s). Trimmed on the outside of the black borderline. Bartsch 117; Meder 218.