Coat of Arms with a Single Eagle, c. 1505

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut within platemark): 21 x 17 cm (8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 801

Accession Number

2003.126.1

Artists / Makers

Hans Burgkmair I (artist) German, 1473 - 1531

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in block: [ ]B (first part cut off); by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Hans Burgkmair / "Coat of Arms with / a single eagle" / Passavant 102 / H. 801

Provenance

R. A. Winkler (not in Lugt). (Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.
Winkler, Rolf Arnim

Exhibition History

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 69.

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