Die Entführung auf dem Einhorn – Abduction on a Unicorn 1516

Meder67_AbductiononaUnicorn (2)

 

 

Albrecht Dürer

1471 – Nuremberg – 1528

Die Entführung auf dem Einhorn – Abduction on a Unicorn    1516

etching; 310 x 212 mm (12 1/4 x 8 5/16 inches)

Bartsch 72; Meder 67; Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum

watermark

anchor in circle (Meder 171)

provenance:

Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Lucerne

Carl and Rose Hirschler, geb. Dreyfus, Haarlem (Lugt 633a), acquired in January 1938;

thence by descent

 

exhibition:

B.L.D. Ihle/J.C. Ebbinge Wubben, Prentkunst van Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dürer, Israhel van Meckenem. Uit eene particuliere verzameling, exhibition catalogue, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, 1955, p. 34, no. 55

 

 

A fine impression before any rust spots; in excellent condition; trimmed within the platemark, with the borderline visible all round as well as the four rounded corners of the plate.