The Adoration of the Magi
c. 1480/1485
Artist, Dutch, active c. 1470/1490

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within image): 25 × 22 cm (9 13/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
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Accession
1959.16.16
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 7, p.176, no. 1, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Albertina, Vienna (duplicate, Lugt 5e and 5h); (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1956; gift to NGA, 1959.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 136, repro.
1971
Christmas Print Exhibition, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, 1971-1972, no catalogue.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 26.
Bibliography
1908
Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.
1967
Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 136.
Watermarks
fragment of Gothic P
Wikidata ID
Q65362442