Inscription
across top, in block: Das is der Rom weg von meylen zu meylen mit puncten verzeychnet von eyner stat zu der andern durch deutzsche lant (This is the way to Rome mile by mile with points from one city to another through the German lands)
Provenance
Unidentified collector (S in a circle); Martin Aufhäuser, Munich and Holland(1); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.1
1 For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).
Exhibition History
- 1965
- Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 281, repro.
- 1971
- A Selection of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Book Prints from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971, no. 11.
- 1983
- Nuremberg: A Renaissance City, 1500-1618, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, no. 1, repro.
- 2007
- Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007
Bibliography
- 1926
- Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.
- 1950
- H. Krüger, "Das Heilige Jahr 1500 und Erhardt Etzlaubs Romwegkarte," Erkunde vol. 4 (1950): pp. 137-141.
- 1965
- Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.
- 1983
- Smith, J.C., NUREMBERG, Austin, TX: 1983, no.1 (dated c.1500).
- 2018
- Porras, Stephanie. Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce and Devotion. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2018, p. 11, fig. 2.
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