Coat of Arms with a Lion and a Cock

1502/1503

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This is a print of an emblem featuring a rooster and a lion. At the center of the print is an empty metal helmet. Atop the helmet stands a rooster with its wings spread wide and its beak open. Below the helmet is a shield decorated with a snarling lion. The lion has long, curving claws on each paw, a wide-open mouth showing its long tongue, and a thin, curving tail. Behind the shield and helmet are a spray of thin, curving acanthus leaves that look almost like waves. The print is monochromatic, with dark lines on yellowed paper.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 18.4 × 12 cm (7 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3490

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 97

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ernst Theodor Rodenacker [c.1840 - before 1894], Dantzig (Lugt 2438); Lawson Thompson [1837-1919], Hitchin, England; (sale, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, May 1929, lot no. 259); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 21.

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. 35.

Inscriptions

in plate, lower right: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: Sammlung L. Thompson / Sammlung Rodenacker [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 46 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 259

Markings

Lawson Thompson mark (Lugt 1770) is very faint

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q64952630

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