ANONYMOUS GERMAN, 15TH CENTURY

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28.01.2021 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 1 | ANONYMOUS GERMAN, 15TH CENTURY
ANONYMOUS GERMAN, 15TH CENTURY
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
woodcut with hand-colouring, circa1470-80, on laid paper, a good and well-preserved impression of this large, undescribed early woodcut, the contemporary hand-colouring in red, green, yellow and light brown, with gum arabic on the red dress, the sheet mounted as a paste-down to the versoof a 15th-century German book cover, a thick, calf-covered wooden board, diapered with blind triple fillets, the sheet with various small 15th- and 16th-century ink inscriptions in Latin and Greek in the blank background and margins
Block 274 x 195 mm.
Sheet 338 x 217 mm.
Board 345 x 225 mm.
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