Three Lansquenets, 1780

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series Title

Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets) [plate 1]

Medium

etching

Dimensions

mount: 48.6 × 33.4 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 23.2 × 16.6 cm (9 1/8 × 6 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1948.11.259

Artists / Makers

Maria Catharina Prestel (author) German, 1747 - 1794

Albrecht Dürer (artist after) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, in image, upper center: 1489 / AD; in plate, below image, at right: No. 1.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin d'Albert Durer / Werner Stauffacher, Walther Fürst, et Arnold von Melchthal / se liguent en 1307 pour la Liberté Helvetique.; in plate, below image, at left: E. Museo Prauniano Norimb.; in plate, below image, at right: M. Cath. Prestel sc. 1780. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius