Marcantonio Raimondi (c.1480-c.1534) after Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
[The Small Passion], 16th century
£1,260
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
36 copper-engravings after Dürer's woodcuts (comprising the complete set except for the frontispiece), on laid paper, 7 prints (Nativity; Christ Bids Farewell to his Mother; Christ Before Herod; Christ Before Ananias; Christ Crowned with Thorns; Ecce Homo; Resurrection of Christ) with watermark of a duck or goose's head inside a shield, 13 with a different watermark (possibly the lower half of the previous), the remainder apparently without watermark, plate sizes 12.8 x 10.2cm, two prints (Fall of Man and Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise) with thread margins, the rest all with margins of approx 1.5cm, prints mounted at corners in modern album (each engraving on separate mount), pencilled numbering to lower margins, variable light spotting, many prints loose