The Virgin and Child on a Crescent with a Starry Crown

1508

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 11.9 × 7.8 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3497

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 32, state ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Malcolm [1805-1893], Poltalloch and London (Lugt 1489 and Lugt 1780); purchased by The British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings (Lugt 302 and Lugt 305), 1895; (Arthur H. Harlow & Co., New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1939; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

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.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 62.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom left: 1508 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper center, in graphite by a later hand: Mr [?] 42 / Mal / B.31 / Trial [?] proof [?] [crossed out]; verso, center, in graphite by a later hand: 31; verso, center right, in graphite by a later hand: B; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: C.24121; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 42; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: 322; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: C

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338448

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