Elephant
c. 1480/1490
Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 10.9 x 13.3 cm (4 5/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.9098
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 94, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary Jane Morgan [d. 1885], New York (Lugt 1879); Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. [1881-1939], New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1940, no. 33); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 96.
1955
Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1955.
1965
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Prints from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 87, repro.
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Prints, from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1967.
2011
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, 2011-2012.
Bibliography
1908
Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge
1967
Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 87.
1978
King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 30-31, pl. 10.
1985
Snyder, James E. Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350-1575. New York, 1985: 285, fig. 293.
Wikidata ID
Q65023685