Albrecht Durer

1550

Melchior Lorch

Artist, Danish, 1526/1527 - 1583 or after

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.5722

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 21

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 67.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Inscriptions

lower left, on fictive sheet of paper, in plate: (To whom the Apollonian gods bestowed their gifts, the man whom learned Athena nourished at her own breast. Such a man you see here, with his visage and comely hair. He lived for fifty-six years. / On the image of Albrecht Dürer. [translation from Bartrum, Giulia (ed). "Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy," exh. cat., British Museum, London, 2002, no.14, pp. 87-88.])

Wikidata ID

Q65024025

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