Abduction on a Unicorn, 1516

Not on View

Medium

etching (iron) on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 30.7 × 20.9 cm (12 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 67

Accession Number

1943.3.3534

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, upper right, on cloud: 1516 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: La Pohe [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: No 4412; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B 72; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 64 [sideways]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 5

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1949: Goethe as a Print Lover: to Celebrate the Bicentennial of his Birth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1949, no catalogue.

1960: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 39.

1970: Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1970-1971, no. 47B.

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. 83.