Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate): 25.3 × 19.6 cm (9 15/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.3491
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 1, state iii/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Constantin Raderschatt [mid-19th century], Cologne (Lugt 623); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 374); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); 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. 64.
1931
Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 12, repro.
1959
Old Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1959.
1965
The Old Testament in Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, IN, 1965.
1971
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 26, repro.
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.
Inscriptions
in plate, upper left, on hanging tablet: ALBERT [9 shaped form] / DVRER / NORICVS / FACIEBAT / AD [artist's monogram] 1504; verso, top center, in graphite by a later hand: alb[?]t [?]ü[?] [Albrecht Dürer?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: a. Dürer / B. 1; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 374; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: g [?]
Watermarks
bull's head (Meder 62)
Wikidata ID
Q64952631