Coat of Arms with a Lion and a Cock, 1502/1503

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 18.5 × 12 cm (7 5/16 × 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 97, State a

Accession Number

1949.1.13

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom right: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.15043; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: N [underlined] / 04; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B 100; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 2/I/S [?] [upside down?]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: Coat of arms with [?]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 35/Z [?]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 8 [?] [crossed out]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.100; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: K 5796; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B-15, 219 [upside down]

Provenance

R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Gallatin, R. Horace

Exhibition History

1971: Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 28, repro.

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.

Bibliography

1932: Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 35.