?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION MARTIN SCHONGAUER The Annunciation.
Engraving, circa 1480. 165x115 mm; 6½x4½ inches. Bull's head watermark. Ex-collection the Albertina, Vienna (Lugt supplement 5, verso). Trimmed on the plate mark, soft horizontal printer's crease visible mainly on the verso, printer's ink smudges upper edge. A good, dark impression of this extemely scarce, early print.
Lehrs cites only 40 impressions. We locate only 9 impressions in North American public collections and have not found another impression at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 3; Lehrs 1.
