Road Map of Central Europe

c. 1500

Erhard Etzlaub

Artist, German, died 1532

Georg Glockendon the Elder

Publisher, German, active 1484 - 1514

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 40.7 x 29.1 cm (16 x 11 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 41.6 x 30.2 cm (16 3/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
    overall (exterior frame dimensions): 59.7 x 44.5 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.1448

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 1951

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collector (S in a circle); Martin Aufhäuser, Munich and Holland(1); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.1
1 For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 281, repro.

1971

  • A Selection of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Book Prints from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971, no. 11.

1983

  • Nuremberg: A Renaissance City, 1500-1618, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, no. 1, repro.

2007

  • Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1950

  • H. Krüger, "Das Heilige Jahr 1500 und Erhardt Etzlaubs Romwegkarte," Erkunde vol. 4 (1950): pp. 137-141.

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.

1983

  • Smith, J.C., NUREMBERG, Austin, TX: 1983, no.1 (dated c.1500).

2018

  • Porras, Stephanie._ Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce and Devotion_. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2018, p. 11, fig. 2.

Inscriptions

across top, in block: Das is der Rom weg von meylen zu meylen mit puncten verzeychnet von eyner stat zu der andern durch deutzsche lant (This is the way to Rome mile by mile with points from one city to another through the German lands)

Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q64955757

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