Willibald Pirckheimer, 1524

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut to platemark): 10.8 x 11.2 cm (4 1/4 x 4 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of C.G. Boerner, LLC

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 103, State Id/IIb

Accession Number

2005.105.1

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: BILIBALDI PIRKEYMHERI EFFIGIES / AETATIS SVAE ANNO LIII / VIVTVR INGENIO CAETERA MORTIS / ERVNT / MDXXIV AD [artist's monogram]; verso, top left, in graphite by a later hand:19; verso, lower left, in ink by a later hand: 13/30 [?]; verso, lower left, in ink by a later hand: [illegible, possibly collector's mark]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: A 106 [?]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 382; verso, bottom center, in ink by a later hand: 148; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 2005.105.1

Provenance

Alfred Morrison [1821-1897], London and Fonthill (Lugt 151); Julian Marshall [1836-1903], London (Lugt 1494); Carl Hirschler, [1871-1941], Haarlem (Lugt 633a); (C. G. Boerner, Inc., London); gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Hirschler, Carl
Marshall, Julian
Morrison, Alfred
Private Collection (Brush)

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 6.

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. 1: no. 99.