Inscription
lower right, in image, in plate: Israhel V M; below image, in plate: Pro vere Lucretie pudor est decus in muliere / Quo malo convulso fetet pro minime grato (Through Lucretia's example, modesty is woman's ornament / To what end does the wicked ravish for such small gain) [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 231.]
Provenance
(Charles Stonehill, London); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 1967
- Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 231, repro.
- 1970
- Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Charleston Art Gallery, Charleston, WV, 1970, no cat.
- 1990
- Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 2, repro.
Bibliography
- 1908
- Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.
- 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
- 1967
- Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 231.
- 1990
- Russell 1990, no. 2.
- 1996
- Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 62-63, fig.1.47, 65.
- 1999
- Wolfthal, Diane. Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and its Alternatives. Cambridge, 1999: 75, fig. 41.
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