The Nativity, 1504

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 18.5 × 12.1 cm (7 5/16 × 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 2

Accession Number

1949.1.19

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, at upper left, on hanging tablet: 1504 / AD [artist's monogram]; recto, at top right, in brown ink, by later hand: Ag. 37.

Marks and Labels

verso, lower right, in brown ink, by a later hand: [unidentified collector's mark, Lugt 365, with date 1602)

Provenance

unidentified collector (Lugt 365); Sir Peter Lely [1618 - 1680], London (Lugt 2092); The Hon. John Spencer, [1708 - 1746], Althorp (Lugt 1532); by descent through the Spencer family; (Spencer sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 25 June 1919, lot no. 42); R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Gallatin, R. Horace
Lely, Peter, Sir
Spencer, John, The Hon.

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. 2.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 40.