Coat of Arms of the German Empire and Nuremberg City, 1521

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Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to block): 24.2 × 16.9 cm (9 1/2 × 6 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 285

Accession Number

1943.3.3685

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in block, top center: SANCTA / IVSTICIA / 1521; verso, upper right above collector's mark, in graphite by a later hand: 7688; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: auction R. von Retberg; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B [illegible] 4/III 86 [erased]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: W [illegible] [erased]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C 15691; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: UR [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C 14958 [crossed out]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: A 20; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B 162; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B 162; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: I; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: 3646

Provenance

Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague, Bohemia (Lugt 2773); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Lanna, Adalbert von, Baron
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1968: Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.

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: no. 285.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 3: no. 273.1