Landscape with the Cannon
1518
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching (iron) on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 21.9 × 32.2 cm (8 5/8 × 12 11/16 in.)
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Accession
1950.17.21
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 96
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA ( Lugt 1932d), 1949; gift to NGA, 1950.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1960
Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Art Museum, 1960, no. 53, repro.
Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 40, repro.
1964
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.
1970
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1970-1971, no. 48A.
1971
Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 69, repro.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 47, repro.
1979
Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 23.
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. 85.
2016
Bindewald, Maik. "An Undiscovered State of Albrecht Dürer's Large Cannon," Art in Print, Jan-Feb 2016, pp. 6-7, fig.1 (detail). [Bindewald state i/iii]
Inscriptions
in plate, top left: 1518 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center right, in graphite by a later hand: 5383; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand:3053 [?] [faded/erased]
Watermarks
high crown (Meder 31)
Wikidata ID
Q18338527