?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
ISRAEL VON MECKENEM The Presentation in the Temple.
Engraving, circa 1490-1500. 268x183 mm; 10 5/8x7 1/4 inches. Small jug watermark. Ex-collection Dr. Gottfried Eissler (Lugt 805b, verso); and an unknown collector, indiscernible ink stamp lower right recto. Trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early engraving.
We have found only two other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. There are only 5 other impressions listed in North American public collections. Bartsch 37; Lehrs 57.
