Witch Riding on a Goat
c. 1500/1501
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): 11.4 x 7 cm (4 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3556
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 68, state i/ii
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Giuseppe Archinto [1783-1861], Milan (Lugt 547); Alfred Morrison [1821-1897], London and Fonthill (Lugt 151); Langmaak Collection, Hamburg (Lugt 2801a); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); 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. 3.
1969
Symbols in Transformation: Iconographic Themes at the Time of the Reformation, Princeton University Art Museum, 1969, no. 82, repro.
1977
Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 56.
1990
Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 103, repro.
2000
The Fantastic in Renaissance Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.
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. 28.
Inscriptions
in plate, lower right: AD [artist's monogram, reversed D]; verso, left center, in graphite by a later hand: C.10518; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C [?] d [?] c [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B / 67; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 94 [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: u [?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B 67; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 76 [upside down]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 67; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B'' [?]
Markings
none
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q18338520