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Albrecht Dürer

Illustration to Vier Bücher von der Menschlichen Proportion, plate one from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century

1528, assembled into portfolio 1937
Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper
23 × 12.9 cm (9.1 × 5.1 in)

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