?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
MARTIN SCHONGAUER Saint John the Baptist<>.
Engraving, circa 1475. 153x77 mm; 6 1/8x3 inches. Bull's head watermark (similar to Briquet 14776, which dates to northern Italy, circa 1590). Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark. A very good, dark impression with strong contrasts.
Lehrs cites only approximately 40 impressions. We locate only 9 impressions in North American public collections and have found only 1 other impression at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 54; Lehrs 59.
