MEISTER MIT DEM MASCHENHINTERGRUND | SAINT CHRISTINA (SCHREIBER, VOL. V, NO. 2589)

Property from the Collection of the Late Walter L. Strauss
MEISTER MIT DEM MASCHENHINTERGRUND
1450 - 1550
SAINT CHRISTINA (SCHREIBER, VOL. V, NO. 2589)

Metalcut with handcolouring in red, green and yellow, circa 1490-1500, a very good impression of this extremely rare print (Schreiber cites only one other impression of this subject, also handcoloured, in the collection of the British Museum), unframed
image: 161 by 116mm 6¼ by 4⅝in
sheet: 175 by 128mm 6⅞ by 5in

Condition Report:
With small margins, in good condition apart from a horizontal fold, broken through and repaired at left, the handcolouring presumably faded, with a few tiny touches of pen and ink (possibly contemporary?) and spots of glue residue, occasional small spots of staining and soiling (mostly in the margins), unframed

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