Name: ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Brand: Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg (The Small Cardinal)
Price: 1000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg (The Small Cardinal)
engraving, 1519, on laid paper, without watermark, a good impression, Meder I a-b, before the book edition of 1520 with letterpress text on the reverse
Sheet 148 x 97 mm.

William Sharp (19th century), Manchester (Lugt 2650); probably his sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 March 1878 (and 11 following days), lot 925 or 926.
Unidentified, initial M in a Circle in brown ink (not in Lugt).
Unidentified, Star of David in a Circle in red crayon (not in Lugt).

Bartsch 102; Meder, Hollstein 100; Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 89

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This portrait print of the Cardinal and Archbishop of Mainz is one of the few instances in Dürer's printed oeuvre which give us an indication of the numbers of impressions printed and the price paid. In 1520, he sent two hundred impressions and the copper plate to the Cardinal, and received 200 Gold Guilders and a quantity of fine cloth in payment. We can assume that he printed a certain number of impressions before giving the plate away, and further impressions were pulled for the book edition, to be included in the Heiligtumbuch der Stiftskirche zu St. Moritz und M. Magdalena (Halle, 1520), although the book is very rare and the edition must have been small.
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