The Virgin and Child on a Crescent with a Diadem, 1514

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 11.7 × 7.6 cm (4 5/8 × 3 in.)

sheet: 16.5 × 12 cm (6 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 35

Accession Number

1943.3.3559

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom right: 1514 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B 33 [underlined]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 23; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: UA [?] 222; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: gy [?]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 31637 [crossed out]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 32957

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 72.