Albrecht Dürer

A good impression of this rare, lightly engraved Meder a-b impression. Still with the former horizon line above the left thigh. Trimmed to or just outside the platemark, with thread margins in places. According to Erwin Panofsky this is Dürer's earliest drypoint. It is also the only one of Dürer's three drypoints with a date and monogrammed signature. A related drawing by Dürer, Man of Sorrows, is in the collection of The Louvre, Paris (W. 606). – Verso with small areas of paper thinning in the corners. Minor paper defects to the upper edge, otherwise in good condition.