GERMAN SCHOOL, 15TH CENTURY | THE MAN OF SORROWS, FULL FIGURE (WITH THE COLUMN) (SCH., VOL. II, NO. 899)

Property from the Collection of the Late Walter L. Strauss
GERMAN SCHOOL, 15TH CENTURY
THE MAN OF SORROWS, FULL FIGURE (WITH THE COLUMN) (SCH., VOL. II, NO. 899)

Woodcut with handcolouring in blue, green, red, yellow and brown, circa 1475-85, a good impression of this very rare print (Schreiber cites four impressions), unframed
sheet: 78 by 56mm 3⅛ by 2¼in

Condition Report:
With a narrow margin at right, trimmed to the borderline elsewhere, with repaired areas at the upper sheet edge and small associated made up areas touched in with pigment, an associated, short, forked repaired tear to the left of the column, craquelure on halo (possibly caused by the glue-size adhered to iron gall ink?), the sheet adhered to a window mount at the edges verso, framed.

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