Consecration of an Eagle, c. 1500/1525

Not on View

Medium

niello print

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 7.5 x 5.5 cm (2 15/16 x 2 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1936, no. 236

Accession Number

1943.3.6685

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (artist)

Peregrino da Cesena (artist after) Bolognese, active c. 1490/1520

Image Use

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Provenance

possibly Durazzo Collection; acquired 1873 by British Museum, London (Lugt 302 and Lugt 305 [with initials of Campbell Dodgson]); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 790); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

British Museum, The
Durazzo Collection
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1973: Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 32.

Bibliography

1936: Hind, Arthur M. Nielli, Chiefly Italian of the XV Century, Plates, Sulphur Casts and Prints, Preserved in the British Museum. London, 1936.

1973: Levenson et al. 1973, B-19.