Title-Border with Putti Holding the Pirckheimer Arms
probably 1513
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Albrecht Dürer
Attributed to

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
block: 19.7 × 12.6 cm (7 3/4 × 4 15/16 in.)
sheet: 20.2 × 15.3 cm (7 15/16 × 6 in.) -
Accession Number
1984.20.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 281, State a
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Galanti, Paris, before 1938); (Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York); purchased by NGA, 1984.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1932
Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971: no. 281, State a.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 3: no. 270.1
Inscriptions
in later hand, lower right verso in graphite: M 281 without text a / Watermark 179
Watermarks
small crest of Augsburg (Meder 179)
Wikidata ID
Q74046067