Lot 50: Israhel van Meckenem (circa 1445-1503)

St. Barbara (Geisberg 328; Lehrs, Hollstein 393)
engraving, circa 1475-80, a rather grey, later impression, watermark Coat of Arms with a Lion and a Flower above (L. 33; Briquet 1944, dated 1487), trimmed to the borderline, with some made up repairs mainly at the sheet edges
S. 162 x 90 mm.

With Colnaghi's, London, 1978.

Lehrs knew of approximately 40 impressions of this print. Geisberg considered this subject to be part of the series of Large Saints which he dated to the late 1470s.

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