Sea Monster ("Das Meerwunder")

c. 1498

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.7 x 18.8 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3483

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 66

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, sale 41, May 6-8, 1929, no. 243); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 54.

1960

  • Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 22.

1965

  • Master Prints, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, PA, 1965-1966.

1970

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 10A.

1971

  • Prints by Albrecht Durer, Birmingham Museum of Art, 1971.

  • Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 11, repro.

1985

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

1995

  • Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

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. 66.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 21.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 243; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B 41; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: [illegible] [01?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 79 [sideways]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B [? erased]

Watermarks

high crown (Meder 20)

Wikidata ID

Q7762767

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