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EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AND ALBERT DURER

£75.00

Original 1887 6 5/8 inch x 10 inch engraving titled THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN AND ALBERT DURER

Imagined scene of the artist Dürer at the top of a ladder in front of an outline of a painting, Maximilian addressing a group of people, his hand gesturing towards the artist.

From the picture in the Schwabe Collection at Hamburg.

Engraved by Thomas Brown (active 1867 – 1887).

After Wilhelm Guillaume Koller (1829 – 1884). An Austrian historical Painter. First studied painting at the Academy if Fine Arts in Vienna under Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, after which he continued his studies from 1851 to 1855 in Dusseldorf.

Published in the Art Journal by J.S. Virtue & Co. Ltd., London.

Page size 12 7/8 inch x 9 3/8 inch

The engraving, on fairly thick paper, is in good to very good condition with slight foxing in the white border. Reverse side blank.

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