ALBRECHT DÜRER | THE BEAST WITH TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB (B. 74; M., HOLL. 175)

Property from the Collection of the Late Walter L. Strauss
ALBRECHT DÜRER
1471 - 1528
THE BEAST WITH TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB (B. 74; M., HOLL. 175)

Woodcut, circa 1496-97, from The Apocalypse, a very good impression from the German text edition of 1498, printing with good contrasts and three-dimensionality, unframed
sheet: 393 by 283mm 15½ by 11⅛in

Condition Report:
Trimmed outside or to the borderline, two horizontal tears and an associated made up area at centre, additional repaired short tears and small losses (mostly around the sheet edges, a couple touched in with pen and ink), other minor defects, unframed.

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Provenance:
A duplicate from the Königliches Sächsisches Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden (L. 1648, inkstamp recto, and L. 5489); initial 'M' inkstamp (not in Lugt)