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Effigies Luca Leidensis propria manu incidere (Self-Portrait of the Artist)

Anonymous Dutch engraver, after Albrecht Dürer.
Effigies Luca Leidensis propria manu incidere (Self-Portrait of the Artist).
Etching, c. 1575
175x114 mm.
Lettered with the letter 'L' with the date 1525 divided on either side.

Bibliography
Bartsch 173
New Hollstein 3 (Lucas van Leyden - Late 16th and early 17th c. prints in the style of Lucas van Leyden).

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Lettered "Effigies Luca Leidensis propria manu incidere." followed by a decorative undulating line in the lower margin.
This is an anonymous etching after a drawing by Albrecht Dürer in the British Museum (1910,0212.103) of an unidentified sitter; it was once believed to be a self-portrait by Lucas van Leyden as a result of the inscription in the bottom margin.