The Great Landscape with the Water Mill

c. 1520

Albrecht Altdorfer

Artist, German, 1480 or before - 1538

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with traces of light gray and yellow watercolor on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 17.6 x 23.6 cm (6 15/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.74.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. e. 92, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1979

  • Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 28.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, vol.1, p.222, no.92.

1963

  • Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen. Munich: R.Piper and Co., 1963.

1993

  • Wood, Christopher S. Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. London, 1993: fig. 240.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. e. 92, state only.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate in monogram: AA

Watermarks

Goblet (Winzinger watermark # 11)

Wikidata ID

Q65564463

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