After Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - Artist using a special measuring apparatus

A good impression on wove paper.

Illustration to the work on measurement with no text on the verso, showing the interior of a bedchamber with a man sitting in profile on the left on the right an artist using a special measuring apparatus to draw a portrait of the sitter. 1525
Woodcut

A late XIX Century engraving after the original woodcut.

Signed in the block.

Curator's comments
This illustration appears in Dürer's 'Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt', first published in Nuremberg, 1525.

Bibliographic references
Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (268) (without text)(268)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.160.146) (without text)(VII.160.146)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.343.150)

(Source: British Museum)

Condition is good.