May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JACOB MATHAM (after Dürer)
Large Procession to Calvary.

Engraving, 1615. 585x397 mm; 23x15 3/4 inches, narrow to thread margins. Second state (of 2). A very good, dark impression of this large, scarce engraving.
We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years.

An indricate illustration of scriptural passages from Matthew 27:26, 35; Mark 15:15, 24-35; Luke 23:33; and John 19:17-37; based on a drawing by Dürer from around 1505 now in the Uffizi, Florence. New Hollstein 39.