ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

Lot 159
05.07.2022 12:00UTC +00:00
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£ 50 000
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ID 793529
Lot 159 | ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
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£ 50 000 – 70 000
ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

The Nativity (Christmas)

engraving, 1504, on laid paper, watermark Bull's Head (Meder 62), a very fine Meder b impression, printing with a very subtle plate tone and inky plate edges in places, trimmed to or just outside the platemark, with thread margins in places, in very good condition

Plate 187 x 121 mm.

Sheet 188 x 122 mm.





Provenance

Dr Wilhelm August Ackermann (1793-1865), Lübeck and Dresden (Lugt 791); his sale, R. Weigel, Leipzig, 29 March 1853, lot 107 ('köstlicher Druck und wohlerhalten') (Mk. 34; to Weber).

Hermann Weber (1817-1854), Cologne, Brussels & Bonn (see Lugt 1383, without his mark).

With Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Lucerne.

Carl Hirschler (1871-1941) & Rose Hirschler (née Dreyfus), Amsterdam & Haarlem (Lugt 633a); then by descent.

With C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf (Neue Lagerliste 132 (2013), no. 5).

Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2013.



Literature

Bartsch 2; Meder, Hollstein 2; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 40



Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans, Prentkunst van Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dürer, Israhel van Meckenem - Uit eene particuliere verzameling, 1955, no. 42.



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