DÜRER Albrecht (1471 - 1528) - "Portrait... - Lot 12 - Eric Caudron

DÜRER Albrecht (1471 - 1528) - "Portrait of Willibald Pirckheimer". 1524. Original chisel. Proof on fine laid paper. Signed with the artist's monogram in the lower right corner of the tablet on which one can also read the date and the dedication: "BILIBALDI. PIRKEYMHERI . EFFIGIES / AETATIS. SUAE. ANNO. L. III. / VIVITUR. INGENIO. CAETERA. MORTIS./ ERUNT. / M. D. XX. IV". Ref: Bartsch, n°106. Hollstein, n°103. Slightly late printing. Margins. Willibald Pirckheimer (14701530), a famous German jurist and humanist, friend of Erasmus and Dürer, used this plate as his bookplate. 18,5 x 12 cm. 25,3 x 19,4 cm. Condition B/C (two traces of wetness in the right margin, a wormhole to the left of the furred collar, light foxing mainly in the margins and verso).