Inscription
lower left in image, on tablet: H.N. (in reverse); lower left in tablet: HANNS / LEVCZELLBVRGER / FVRMSCHNIDER / 1522; lower right in tablet: ABCDEFG / HIKLMNO / PQRSTVX / YZ
Provenance
(Antiquariat Franke, Lübeck, as part of an album of 16th and 17th century prints). (sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 26 May 2016, no.5138, as by Nikolaus Hogenberg); (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2017 by NGA.
Bibliography
- 1860
- Passavant, Johann David. Le peintre-graveur, contenant l'histoire de la gravure sur bois, sur metalet au buring jusque vers la fin du XVI siecle .... 6 vols. Leipzig: Rudolph Weigel, 1860-1864: no. 2 (under Hogenberg)
- 1949
- Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868 (Hogenberg), no. 3, i/ii