Apostolo ai Piedi di una Colonna (Apostle at the Foot of a Column) (Takahatake 70-71; cf. Bartsch XII.147.12)

• 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)
• 288,0 x170,0mm