Saint Thomas, 1514

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 11.9 × 7.7 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 50

Accession Number

1943.3.3525

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, lower left: 1514 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper left, in graphite by a later hand: B7; verso, upper left, in graphite by a later hand: 66_; verso, upper left, in graphite by a later hand: a [?] 48; verso, center right, in graphite by a later hand: B.48; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 30; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 5 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 80 [underlined]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: CB Brusaber; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 389; verso, botom right, in graphite by a later hand: ucj [?]

Provenance

Carl Benjamin Brüsaber [1815-1876], Hamburg (Lugt 311); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 389); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Brüsaber, Carl Benjamin
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1929: Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 10.

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. 75.