Shields with Rabbit and Moor's Head, Held by Wild Man
c. 1480/1490
Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 7.7 x 7.9 cm (3 1/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.87
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 104, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
William Esdaile [1758-1837], London (Lugt 2617); Robert Balmanno [1780-1866], London (Lugt 213); The British Museum, London (duplicate, Lugt 305); (Knoedler and Co., New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1953
Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.
1955
Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no catalogue.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 95, repro.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
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. 95.
1994
Bartra, Roger. Wild Men in the Looking Glass: The Mythic Origins of European Otherness, Ann Arbor, MI, 1994: fig. 85.
Wikidata ID
Q64960306