SOUTHERN GERMAN, MID 15TH CENTURY
The Christ Child with Orb and Cross (New Year's Greeting)
woodcut with handcolouring, circa 1470, on laid paper, without watermark, a good, clear impression of this very rare print, with contemporary hand-colouring in green, red, blue, pink, yellow, and silver, small margins, considerable gaufrage verso, the silver in the nimbus oxidised to black and partially cracked and with small losses, a flattened, oblique crease across the sheet with some associated, tiny pigment losses, otherwise in good condition
Block 77 x 56 mm., Sheet 90 x 65 mm.
SOUTHERN GERMAN, MID 15TH CENTURY
The Christ Child with Orb and Cross (New Year's Greeting)
woodcut with handcolouring, circa 1470, on laid paper, without watermark, a good, clear impression of this very rare print, with contemporary hand-colouring in green, red, blue, pink, yellow, and silver, small margins, considerable gaufrage verso, the silver in the nimbus oxidised to black and partially cracked and with small losses, a flattened, oblique crease across the sheet with some associated, tiny pigment losses, otherwise in good condition
Block 77 x 56 mm., Sheet 90 x 65 mm.
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