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Albrecht Dürer - The Fall of Man - 1510
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Albrecht Dürer - The Fall of Man - 1510 / Description: The Fall of Man, Meder 126 a-b/c. On of the most famous woodcuts from the Small Passion by Dürer. As the other ones offered in this auction, original Dürer woodcuts from an early edition without text, dating from circa 1544 -1589 based on the fragment of watermark found on 'The resurrection' (see other lot in this auction, watermark similar to the 'Kleines Wappen von Kaufburen mit einfachen Sternen =Meder Watermark 220.a, as used in the 'Ehrenporte' published in 1559.) Subject: in a dense forest, Adam and Eve stand arm in arm next to the Tree of Knowledge, surrounded by the serpent, a lion, a bull, and a boar. Original woodcut from circa 1510 by Dürer from the small passion, his first major project, and today his most celebrated, depicting the final days of Christ’s life. / Dimensions: 12,80 x 9,80 cm / Condition: Excellent brilliant sharp and evenly printed well contrasted black impression with intact borderline as only to be found on the early impressions. Edition well ahead of the Italian text edition. On the full sheet of lead paper measuring 19,50 x 15,00 cm. Tipped with left border on a laid paper support sheet. Excellent untouched condition within borderlines. The margins with slight foxing. Bottom corners of the margin with a closed hole at the area of thumbing. On the backside on top titled 'Passionis Albert Dürer .....' in a very old sepia ink handwriting. / Literature: Meder 127 (a-b/ c). With no gaps at all in the borderline, before the three gaps in top border and the three gaps in bottom borderline as described by Meder for 'c'. --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.119.17) --- Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.296.61) / Medium: Woodcut /Circa: Ca. 1510
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Albrecht Dürer - The Fall of Man - 1510 / Description: The Fall of Man, Meder 126 a-b/c. On of the most famous woodcuts from the Small Passion by Dürer. As the other ones offered in this auction, original Dürer woodcuts from an early edition without text, dating from circa 1544 -1589 based on the fragment of watermark found on 'The resurrection' (see other lot in this auction, watermark similar to the 'Kleines Wappen von Kaufburen mit einfachen Sternen =Meder Watermark 220.a, as used in the 'Ehrenporte' published in 1559.) Subject: in a dense forest, Adam and Eve stand arm in arm next to the Tree of Knowledge, surrounded by the serpent, a lion, a bull, and a boar. Original woodcut from circa 1510 by Dürer from the small passion, his first major project, and today his most celebrated, depicting the final days of Christ’s life. / Dimensions: 12,80 x 9,80 cm / Condition: Excellent brilliant sharp and evenly printed well contrasted black impression with intact borderline as only to be found on the early impressions. Edition well ahead of the Italian text edition. On the full sheet of lead paper measuring 19,50 x 15,00 cm. Tipped with left border on a laid paper support sheet. Excellent untouched condition within borderlines. The margins with slight foxing. Bottom corners of the margin with a closed hole at the area of thumbing. On the backside on top titled 'Passionis Albert Dürer .....' in a very old sepia ink handwriting. / Literature: Meder 127 (a-b/ c). With no gaps at all in the borderline, before the three gaps in top border and the three gaps in bottom borderline as described by Meder for 'c'. --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.119.17) --- Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.296.61) / Medium: Woodcut /Circa: Ca. 1510
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