Coat of Arms with a Skull
1503
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 22.3 x 16 cm (8 3/4 x 6 5/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3489
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 98, State 2b
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1929
Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 59.
1970
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 15A.
1971
Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 27, repro.
Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 6, 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. 44.
1990
Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 130, repro.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
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.
1990
Russell 1990,cat.no.130.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 37.
Inscriptions
in plate, bottom right, on tablet on stone: AD [artist's monogram]; in plate, bottom center, on stone: 1503; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 77; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: [illegible]
Watermarks
Bull's Head (Meder 62)
Wikidata ID
Q64952629