Sol Iustitiae ("Sun of Righteousness"), c. 1499/1500

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 10.6 × 7.6 cm (4 3/16 × 3 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 73

Accession Number

1943.3.3484

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: Coll [?] [erased]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: Brayton Ives [collector]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 41; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B79; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 7; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 27254

Marks and Labels

in graphite, on verso: Brayton Ives Coll[?]

Provenance

Alfred Morrison [1821-1897], London and Fonthill (Lugt 151); possibly owned by Brayton Ives [1840-1914]; (M Knoedler and Co., NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Ives, Brayton, General
Morrison, Alfred
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 23.