Abduction on a Unicorn
1516
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching (iron) on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 30.7 × 20.9 cm (12 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3534
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 67
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; 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. 45 (as Le Rape).
1949
Goethe as a Print Lover: to Celebrate the Bicentennial of his Birth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1949, no catalogue.
1960
Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 39.
1970
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1970-1971, no. 47B.
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. 83.
Inscriptions
in plate, upper right, on cloud: 1516 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: La Pohe [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: No 4412; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B 72; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 64 [sideways]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 5
Watermarks
anchor in circle (Meder 171)
Wikidata ID
Q64952672