Details
ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Coat of Arms with a Skull
engraving
1503
on laid paper, without watermark
a fine impression, probably Meder I c
printing sharply, with good contrasts, depth and considerable inky relief
trimmed to or just outside the borderline or platemark
some old, repaired paper splits
Sheet 221 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Unidentified, stamped initial A with a star (Lugt 53).
Possibly James Lawrence Claghorn (1817-1884), Philadelphia (Lugt 555c); his collection sold en-bloc to Garrett.
Thomas Harrison Garrett (1849-1888), Baltimore (Lugt 2435b); acquired from the above; then by descent to his sons John and Garrett; deposited with the rest of the collection at the Library of Congress, Washington, from 1904 to 1930; then on loan and finally gifted to the Baltimore Museum of Art between 1942 and 1946.
Baltimore Museum of Art (without mark; see Lugt 394a); presumably their sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New-York, 26 April 1950.
Private Collection, New York; then by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Bartsch 101; Meder, Hollstein 98; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 37
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