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Mathis Zündt, after Hans Lencker

A Perspective of a Faceted Snail Shell Balanced on a Pyramid, 1567

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 23.6 × 25.2 cm (9 5/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

sheet: 26.7 × 28.4 cm (10 1/2 × 11 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Andresen-Weigel 1894, no. 56,21

Accession Number

2014.66.2

Artists / Makers

Mathis Zündt (artist) German, c. 1498 - 1572

Hans Lencker (artist) German, 1523 - 1585

Image Use

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Provenance

(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.

Bibliography

1894: Andresen, Andreas, and Rudolf Weigel. Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek, Berlin. Berlin, 1894, no. 56,21.

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