Landscape with the Cannon

1518

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

The image shows a rural setting from an elevated angle. It depicts a village with thatched-roof buildings extending into the distance. Towards the center, the village meets a silhouetted city in the far distance. Past the village, there are hills and mountains with thin, linear clouds above. The scene is detailed and illustrated in black and white. Near us, figures in historical attire stand by a cannon, while a tree trunk frames the left side. The image is monochromatic, using shades of brown and gray to capture the scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron) on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 21.9 × 32 cm (8 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1941.1.21

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 96

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Scholtz [1834-1912], Budapest (Lugt 2241); Dr. R. Hermann (Lugt 1256e); Albert Voigtländer-Tetzner [b. 1875], Frankfurt (Lugt 196); Emil M. Baerwald [1869-1948], New York and Berlin (Lugt 885c); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Liepzig, April 27, 1931, no. 136); Wiliam Goodwin Russell Allen [1882-1955], Boston; gift to NGA, 1941.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1968

  • L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 101, repro.

1985

  • Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

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.

1993

  • Wood, Christopher S. Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. London, 1993: 250, fig. 184. (Revised edition, London, 2014: 293, fig. 184.)

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 85.

Inscriptions

in plate, top left: 1518 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, top center, in graphite by a later hand: e- [?]; verso, upper center, in graphite by a later hand: 137/8x16 [upside down]; verso, upper center, in graphite by a later hand: 15897 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 30/95 [?] [underlined] / [illegible]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 136 [underlined]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.99; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: [4?] D [sideways]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 438; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 23; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B-21 [upside down]

Watermarks

similar to Meder 46

Wikidata ID

Q18338527

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