ALBRECHT DÜRER | SAMSON RENDING THE LION (B. 2; M., HOLL. 107)

Property from the Collection of the Late Walter L. Strauss
ALBRECHT DÜRER
1471 - 1528
SAMSON RENDING THE LION (B. 2; M., HOLL. 107)

Woodcut, circa 1496-97, a later Meder g impression, on paper with a Words watermark (M. 339), unframed
sheet: 386 by 277mm 15⅛ by 10⅞in

Condition Report:
Trimmed to the borderline, in generally good condition apart from occasional, very small areas touched in with pen and ink, a few minute losses at centre and upper left, a diagonal and vertical crease (mostly visible verso), pale discoloration and scattered minute fox marks, residual mounting at sheet edges verso, unframed.

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