
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 17.2 × 12.9 cm (6 3/4 × 5 1/16 in.)
block: 17 × 12.6 cm (6 11/16 × 4 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1992.43.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 229, State a/c
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Frederick Keppel & Co., NY); Lucy Leffingwell Pulling [1907-1979], Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY; (Paul McCarron, NY); purchased by NGA, 1992.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
Bibliography
1802
Bartsch 113.
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. 229.
2016
Brisman, Sheila. Albrecht Dürer & the Epistolary Mode of Address. Chicago, 2016: 115-116, fig. 4.6.
Inscriptions
center left in plate: AD; lower right in plate: 1512; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B. 5082; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 80[51?] [faded]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: FCX; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B. 113
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q18339714