The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528) The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John woodcut with extensive handcolouring and touches of gilding, 1493, on laid paper, watermark Bull's Head with T (similar to Meder 77; not in Piccard), a fine impression of this very rare, early print, published in the Speziale Opus Missarum, Johann Grüninger, Strasbourg, with wide margins, the hand-colouring contemporary, with the saints' names inscribed in brown ink on the halos, a small made-up paper loss at the left sheet edge, some staining, handling marks and surface dirt in the margins, otherwise in very good, original condition Block 222 x 136 mm., Sheet 293 x 204 mm.