Morris Dancer

c. 1500

German 15th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/block: 12 × 8.3 cm (4 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
    sheet (unevenly trimmed): 15.2 × 13 cm (6 × 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.835

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased 19 August 1939 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

Inscriptions

verso, at upper right, in graphite by later hand: 169; lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 15G270; lower right, in graphite by a later hand: b-3388

Markings

verso, top left, partial label (from previous bookseller?): terhark's Bu / rrn Alfred N

Wikidata ID

Q64953467

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