GERMAN SCHOOL, 15TH CENTURY | SAINT SEBASTIAN AND THE MADONNA (HALF FIGURES) (SCHREIBER, VOL. III, NO. 1694H)

Property from the Collection of the Late Walter L. Strauss
GERMAN SCHOOL, 15TH CENTURY
SAINT SEBASTIAN AND THE MADONNA (HALF FIGURES) (SCHREIBER, VOL. III, NO. 1694H)

Woodcut with handcolouring in red, green, yellow and brown, circa 1500, a very good impression of this extremely rare print (Schreiber cites one impression only), printing with gaufrage, on paper with an indistinct Heart (?) watermark, unframed
sheet: 101 by 133mm 4 by 5¼in

Condition Report:
Trimmed outside the borderline, in good condition apart from pale discoloration and scattered fox marks, a window mount adhered to the sheet edges verso, a couple of tiny nicks and losses at the sheet edges, unframed.

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