Dodgson, Campbell; Dürer, Albrecht [Hrsg.]: Albrecht Dürer (London [u.a.]: The Midici Soc., 1926)

D U R E R


Vienna. First State

116x73

65. THE MAN OF SORROWS, STANDING, HIS ARMS TIED AT
THE WRISTS
73.21 O.97 H.445 3?.195 M.64 K.64 J7.(62) Bw.54 Dry-point

Signature : monogram, below date on sky.
Date: 1512.
Two states.
I. Before any lines on the sky above the date.
IMPRESSION : Vienna.
II. The lines added and the border-line above them strengthened.
IMPRESSIONS : Berlin, London, etc.
Watermark : ‘ bull’s head.’ Good impressions of this plate are rare. I have seen
but one impression of the hitherto undescribed first state, that in the Albertina.
Drawing: pen-and-ink drawing in the Louvre (L. 319), in reverse.

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