Coat of Arms with a Lion and a Cock, 1502/1503

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 18.4 × 12 cm (7 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 97

Accession Number

1943.3.3490

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, lower right: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: Sammlung L. Thompson / Sammlung Rodenacker [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 46 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 259

Marks and Labels

Lawson Thompson mark (Lugt 1770) is very faint

Provenance

Ernst Theodor Rodenacker [c.1840 - before 1894], Dantzig (Lugt 2438); Lawson Thompson [1837-1919], Hitchin, England; (sale, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, May 1929, lot no. 259); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rodenacker, Ernst Theodor
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Thompson, Lawson

Exhibition History

1929: Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 21.

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. 35.