Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus

Not on View

series Title

Fables [B. 71-73]

Medium

engraving

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 120, State i/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.6719

Artists / Makers

Georg Pencz (artist) German, c. 1500 - 1550

Image Use

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Provenance

W. Meyer [19th century]; (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 890); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1990: Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 29, repro.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1990: Russell 1990, cat.no.29.

1993: Wolfthal, Diane. "'A Hue and a Cry': Medieval Rape Imagery and Its Transformation," Art Bulletin, March 1993, fig. 31, p. 63.

1999: Wolfthal, Diane. Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and Its Alternatives. Cambridge, 1999: 122, fig. 73.