Lot Essay
The present impression compares favourably to the equally fine, but more closely trimmed impression in the British Museum.
Details
MARTIN SCHONGAUER (CIRCA 1445-1491)
Christ crowned with Thorns, from: The Passion
engraving, circa 1470-82, on laid paper, without watermark, a very fine, strong and bright impression, printing with great clarity and contrasts, with fine wiping marks at the corners and elsewhere, trimmed to the borderline at left and right and just inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline above and below, in very good condition
Sheet 164 x 114 mm.
Christ crowned with Thorns, from: The Passion
engraving, circa 1470-82, on laid paper, without watermark, a very fine, strong and bright impression, printing with great clarity and contrasts, with fine wiping marks at the corners and elsewhere, trimmed to the borderline at left and right and just inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline above and below, in very good condition
Sheet 164 x 114 mm.
Literature
Bartsch 13; Lehrs, Hollstein 23
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Tim Schmelcher
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