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ALBRECHT DÜRER The Virgin on the Crescent with a Crown of Stars.
Engraving, 1508. 118x75 mm; 4¾x3⅛ inches, thread margins. Second state (of 2), with the outer halo completed. A superb, richly-inked Meder a-b impression in this state, with the vertical scratch in the halo at the right, the vertical scratches near the monogram lower right and with very strong contrasts. The upper portion of a Bull's Head watermark (Meder 62, which he dates from the late 1400s / early 1500s).
Provenance: Eduard Schultze, Vienna, extremely pale remnant of violet ink stamp verso (Lugt 906). Bartsch 31; Meder 32.
