Leopold Dick
c. 1525/1550
Artist, German, active c. 1520 - 1550 or after
Publisher, German, 1642 - 1709
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 22.7 x 15.7 cm (8 15/16 x 6 3/16 in.) (cut to platemark)
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Accession
2012.71.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 66, State ii/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
J. Burleigh James, Knowbury Park (Lugt 1425); (Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased 2012 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2013
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475 - 1540, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2013-2014 (not at NGA venue and not in catalogue).
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, no. 66, ii/iii
Inscriptions
upper center in plate: [Greek inscription, not deciphered] / Leopoldus Dickius: iureconsul: l'oratorie dei Rhetor; lower center in plate: Soli, opt: max ar sermo rexum... / ...Vale lector candide et dextro gemo interim melioriubs utexe fatis; lower center, below text, in plate, artist's monogram: I.[pinecone] H. ; lower left, in plate below text, inscribed by later publisher: 79; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: ue / [not deciphered]
Markings
none
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q76560446