The Roman Courtesan (The Revenge of the Magician Virgil)

c. 1520/1526

Albrecht Altdorfer

Artist, German, 1480 or before - 1538

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 7.5 x 4.4 cm (2 15/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.77.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. e. 50, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collector (owl?)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein 50.

1963

  • Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen. Munich: R.Piper and Co., 1963.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. e. 50, state only.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate in monogram: AA; center verso in graphite: C.40638 / (crossed out) C.14316; lower left verso in graphite: B43 / W73/ 74; lower center verso in graphite: #10493; lower right verso: 34411

Wikidata ID

Q74066075

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