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The Little Courier (B. 80; Meder, Holl. 79; Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 10)
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
The Little Courier (B. 80; Meder, Holl. 79; Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 10)
engraving, circa 1496, with part of a Bull's Head watermark, a very fine, early Meder a impression, trimmed on or just into the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, generally in very good condition
S. 110 x 79 mm.
The Little Courier (B. 80; Meder, Holl. 79; Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 10)
engraving, circa 1496, with part of a Bull's Head watermark, a very fine, early Meder a impression, trimmed on or just into the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, generally in very good condition
S. 110 x 79 mm.
Provenance
Peter Lely (1618-1680), London (L. 2092), with a small inscription associated with the Lely provenance in brown ink at upper left sheet edge recto.
H. S. Theobald (1847-1934), London (L. 1375).
With Colnaghi's, London (their inventory number in pencil verso, not in Lugt).
H. S. Theobald (1847-1934), London (L. 1375).
With Colnaghi's, London (their inventory number in pencil verso, not in Lugt).
Special Notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
Sale Room Notice
Please note that this print also bears the mark of Henry Study Theobald (L. 1375), and was probably sold in his sale at Gutekunst in Stuttgart on 12 May 1910.
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Frédérique Darricarrère-Delmas
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