ALBRECHT DÜRER | CHRIST ON THE CROSS (B. 24; M., HOLL. 23)

ALBRECHT DÜRER
1471 - 1528
CHRIST ON THE CROSS (B. 24; M., HOLL. 23)

Engraving, 1508, a very good Meder b impression, on paper with a Bull's Head watermark (M. 62), unframed
sheet: 132 by 97mm 5¼ by 4⅞in

Condition Report:
Trimmed on the subject, the lower edge trimmed fractionally within the subject, an extremely fine strip added to lower edge made up with pen and ink (measuring approx. 1mm), the upper tips of sheet made up and touched in with pen and ink, the right borderline strenghtened with pen and ink, a couple of miniscule brown stains towards the lower left of subject, unframed.

(A short, unobtrusive vertical crease in the upper right corner of subject is presumably inherent to the paper).

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Provenance:
Ex coll. Alfred Morrison (Lugt 151); Marseille Holloway (L. 1875)