Saint John on Patmos, c. 1475/1480

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16 x 11.3 cm (6 5/16 x 4 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 60, State only

Accession Number

1952.8.298

Artists / Makers

Martin Schongauer (artist) German, c. 1450 - 1491

Image Use

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Provenance

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971); Prince Ernst Saxe, Dublin; (P. & D. Colnaghi, London); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1951; gift to NGA, 1952.

Associated Names

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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 cat.

1955: Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no cat.

1958: Festival of Fine Arts, Barber-Scotia College, Concord, NC, 1958, no cat.

1959: Old Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1959, no cat.

1960: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1960, no cat.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 45, repro.

1972: A Selection of Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, 1972, no cat.

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. 19.

1985: Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

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. 45.