Liber Bilibaldi Pirckheimer (Bookplate of Willibald Pirckheimer), 1502

Inscription

in top block, inscription in Hebrew, Greek and Latin [Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom]; in lower block, at center: SIBI ET AMICIS.P. [ositus]; in lower block, along bottom: LIBER BILIBALDI PIRCKHEIMER

Provenance

Willibald Pirckheimer [1470-1530]; then by descent, possibly through Pirckheimer's sister, Barbara Straube [died 1560] or his eldest daughter, Felicitas; the collection reunited through Felicitas' husband, Willibald Imhoff; then by descent to Hans Hieronymous Imhoff; by whom sold to Matthäus van Overbeck [died 1638], 1634; Earl of Sunderland (library shelfmark, B4:36, on inside front cover) (sale, London, Puttick and Simpson, 16 March 1883, lot 12, 345, to Quartich); Howell Wills (sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 July 1894, lot 831, to Quaritch, from whom acquired by Yates Thompson in 1897); Henry Yates Thompson (sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 June 1919, lot 29, bought in and subsequently presented by Yates Thompson to the London Library); London Library (sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 June 1966, lot 66); purchased by Edelmann; Schickedanz collection; (Rolf Kistner, Nuremberg); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 14 May 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Exhibition History

1897

Monuments in Typography, Quaritch, London, 1897, no. 307.

1906

Early German Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1906, no. 23 (as attributed to Durer).

1971

Albrech Dürer 1471-1971, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1971, no. 296.

1986

Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 57.

1986

Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 48.

1987

Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 47.

1990

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 58.

1995

The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 19.

1997

Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

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.

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