An Archer Shooting a Crossbow, 1579

Not on View

engraving on laid paper

sheet (cut inside platemark): 22.1 x 14 cm (8 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

New Hollstein, no. 48, State i/ii

2005.131.1

Cherubino Alberti (artist) Roman, 1553 - 1615

Cornelis Cort (artist) Netherlandish, 1533 - 1578

Lelio Orsi (artist after) Italian, 1525 - 1587

lower center in plate: Regij. 1579; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 13875

King Friedrich August II of Saxony (Lugt 971). (Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Berlin); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony
Nicolaas Teeuwisse OHG

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 22.

1948: Bierens de Haan, Johan Catharinus Justus. L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais. The Hague, 1948.

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Cornelis Cort, Manfred Sellink author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 48, state i/ii.

2006: King, Catherine. "An Etching and Lelio Orsi's House." Print Quarterly.23 (2006): 176-182.

2007: Parshall, Peter, and Naoko Takahatake. "Cherubino Alberti, Lelio Orsi and Corenlis Cort." Print Quarterly. 24 (2007): 430-431.