First Knot

c. 1490/1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper [the 5 parts of the knot are cut out from a single sheet and trimmed to the image]

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image overall approx: 24.13 × 22.86 cm (9 1/2 × 9 in.)

  • Accession

    1961.17.55.a-e

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.94, no. 19

Associated Artworks

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First Knot [center panel]

Italian 15th Century

1490

First Knot [lower right corner]

Italian 15th Century

1490

First Knot [upper left corner]

Italian 15th Century

1490

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 9.

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 226.

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.114.

Wikidata ID

Q65506972

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