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Erasmus of Rotterdam
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
1526
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number1972.983
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Dürer engraved this formal portrait of the great humanist writer and scholar Erasmus after having met him in the Netherlands in 1520-21.
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 107; Meder 105a
Marks
watermark: crowned shield with L, two lilies,and pendant b)
ProvenanceNathaniel Smith (b. 1740 or 1741 - d. about or before 1809; Lugt 2296, 2298), London. John Rushout, Earl of Northwick (b. 1770 - d. 1859; Lugt 2709a), Northwick Park and Cheltenham; by descent through the family of the Earls of Northwick; May 22, 1933, Lord Northwick sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, lot 353, sold for RM 1000. 1972, sold by C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 1972)