The Letter "K"

c. 1466/1467

Master E.S.

Artist, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut within platemark): 14.4 × 11 cm (5 11/16 × 4 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.195

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.363, no. 292, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William Esdaile [1758-1837], London (Lugt 2617); G.W. (unidentified stamp, possibly Lugt 1226); K (unidentified stamp, Lugt 1626); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 71.

1953

  • Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.

1958

  • The Fantastic, the Occult, and the Bizarre in Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no catalogue.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 15, repro.

  • Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 74, repro.

1968

  • Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, 1968-1969, no catalogue.

1973

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 13, repro.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

1994

  • Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.

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.

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. 15.

1994

  • Bartra, Roger. Wild Men in the Looking Glass: The Mythic Origins of European Otherness, Ann Arbor, MI, 1994: fig. 55.

Wikidata ID

Q64960405

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