Calvary with the Three Crosses
c. 1504/1505
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to block): 21.4 × 14.5 cm (8 7/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3594
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 180
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Collections of Veste Coburg, Kupferstichkabinett (Lugt 451a); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 10, 1929, no. 394); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1971
Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 107, 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.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 131.
Inscriptions
in block, bottom center, on tablet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B. 59 / D. 26; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 394 [encircled]
Watermarks
scales in circle (Meder 169)
Wikidata ID
Q18339703