May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 47,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 40,000 - $ 60,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Sea Monster.

Engraving, before 1500. 251x188 mm; 10x7 3/8 inches, narrow to thread margins. A brilliant, richly-inked Meder a impression with excellent contrasts and clarity, before any wiping scratches and before the horizontal scratches in the monogram and the cloud, with partially inky plate edges and no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject. Bartsch 71; Meder 66.