red chalk (recto); black chalk (verso)

oil on copper

oil on canvas

Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from a black line block, a light orange block, and a red-brown block, 1540-1545, partially worked over in grey wash and black ink on laid paper, a very fine, early and extremely rare impression of state 1a, before the small circular break at upper right, the tone blocks printing to rich and sculptural effect, on laid paper with a fragment of a Crowned Eagle watermark (cf. Zonghi wmk 709-710)

Pen and brown ink and light brown wash over black chalk, within partial brown ink framing lines, arched top;

Pen and brown ink and wash, within brown ink framing lines;