Coat of Arms with a Lion and Unicorn

c. 1480/1490

Master hw

Associated Names
Master hw

Artist, German, active c. 1481/1482

This is a drawing of a coat of arms featuring a unicorn. The illustration includes a shield with a rampant lion, a helmet above the shield, and a unicorn emerging from the helmet. Surrounding the coat of arms are intricate floral and leafy scrolls. The background includes handwritten script in old-style cursive. The paper appears aged with wear at the edges.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.203

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 7, p.240, no. 15, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale 35, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, 1935, no. 264); (Alden Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 141, 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.

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. 141.

Wikidata ID

Q64960421

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