Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper [trial proof]
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 29.6 × 19.7 cm (11 5/8 × 7 3/4 in.)
image: 21.9 × 14.8 cm (8 5/8 × 5 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1944.2.94
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 245
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1943; gift to NGA, 1944.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1955
Drawings and Prints by Albrecht Dürer, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1955.
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: no. 245.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 3: no. 269.2
Inscriptions
in block, top left: Eurus / Ignis / Coler[i]cus; in block, top center: Sophiam me Greci vocant Latini Sapienciam,; Egipcii & Chaldei me inuenere Greci scripsere / Latini transtulere Germani ampliavere.; in block, top right: Zephirus / Aer / Sanguineus; in block, upper center, in top medallion: EGIPCIORVM SACERDOTES ET CHALDEI / Ptolemy; in block, upper left and right: PHILOSOPHIA; in block, on left arm of throne: [Greek inscription from Pseudo-Phosyides vv. 6]; in block, on right arm of throne: [Greek inscription from Pseudo-Phosyides vv. 7]; in block, in left medallion: SAPIENTES GERMANORVM / Albertus; in block, in right medallion: GRECORVM PHILOSOPHI / Plato; in block, on tablet from breast to feet of Philosophy: Θ / Μ / Ας / Γη / Αρ / Ρετ / Λο / Γρα / Φ; in block, on scroll at foot of tablet: AD [artist's monogram]; in block, in bottom medallion: LATINORVM POETAE ET RHETORES / Cicero / Virgilius; in block, bottom left: Boreas / Terra / Melancolius; in block, bottom center: Quicquid habet Cœlum quid Terra quid Aer & aequor / Quicquid in humanis rebus & esse potest / Et deus in toto quicquid facit igneus orbe / Philosophia meo pectore cuncta gero.; in block, bottom right: Auster / Aqua / Flecmaticus; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: C 23845
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q18339659