Traffic in Indulgences, c. 1524

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 8.2 × 26.9 cm (3 1/4 × 10 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Passavant, Vol. III.381, no. 29

Accession Number

1943.3.4853

Artists / Makers

Hans Lützelburger (artist) German, active 1517-1526

Hans Holbein the Younger (artist after) German, 1497/1498 - 1543

Image Use

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Inscription

in block, within image at left: K. DAVID; in block, within image at left: MANASSES; in block, within image at left: OFFEN. SVNDER; lower right, in brown ink: HH

Marks and Labels

lower right, recto, stamped in black ink, partially trimmed: [mark of Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (Lugt 971)]

Provenance

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971); purchased 1929 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkinton, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1960: Graphic Masterpieces of Five Hundred Years from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1960, no cat.

Bibliography

1860: Passavant, Johann David. Le peintre-graveur, contenant l'histoire de la gravure sur bois, sur metalet au buring jusque vers la fin du XVI siecle .... 6 vols. Leipzig: Rudolph Weigel, 1860-1864.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700. Vol. XIV. Roosendaal, 1988: no. 4.