Albrecht Dürer Prints and Multiples
German, 1471-1528
Albrecht Dürer revolutionized woodcut printmaking as an artform and his influence over the medium's practitioners has endured for centuries. Revered for his masterfully detailed prints and drawings, the German artist was driven by boundless curiosity. Dürer was the Renaissance personified in 16th-century northern Europe — he was more deeply engaged in the pursuits of the era’s Italian painters than any other artist from the region, an attribute that earned him the title “Leonardo of the North.”
Trained initially as a goldsmith in his father’s workshop, Dürer’s talent for art materialized early, in a self-portrait at the age of 13 in 1484. Held in the Albertina Museum in Vienna, this silverpoint drawing is one of the oldest extant self-portraits in European art.
While Dürer traveled extensively, his two stays in Venice, which took place during the turn of the 16th century, were among the most influential. There he became increasingly acquainted with the work of great Italian artists including Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Leonardo da Vinci and a young Raphael. Naturally, Dürer found great inspiration in the Venetians’ theoretical interests, techniques, use of color and more.
Over the course of his career, Dürer received commissions from Frederick the Wise-Elector of Saxony, Emperor Maximilian I and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. At one point he was commissioned to draw the first living rhinoceros seen in Europe since the Roman Empire. Despite having never actually seen the animal, Dürer made the now-famous c. 1515 woodcut based on one written account and brief sketch. For years it remained the common interpretation of what rhinos looked like to Europeans.
Dürer’s woodcuts were widely disseminated during his time, and he is the best known artist associated with the Northern Renaissance. His breathtaking technical prowess is most prominent in his three master engravings — Saint Jerome in His Study, Melencolia I and Knight, Death, and the Devil — profoundly influential works that are characterized by rich textures and meticulously detailed imagery.
Dürer’s work is in the collections of many museums, including the National Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, while his former home in Nuremberg, Germany, has been converted into a museum dedicated to his legacy. Important works like Hare and Praying Hands can be found in the Albertina, while his second famous self-portrait from 1500 — which depicts Dürer in a fur-trimmed robe — is on display in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.
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Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Samson Killing the Lion
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Zürich, CH
The woodcut is listed as Bartsch: 2, Medes: 107d.
Upon returning from his 1495 trip to Italy, Albrecht Dürer produced large woodcuts of unprecedented complexity culminating in his S...
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15th Century and Earlier Albrecht Dürer Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Saint Michael fighting the Dragon
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Zürich, CH
"Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon (B. 72; M., Holl. 174)"
This engraving is a print from the Latin publication of the text of the Apocalypse of 1511. Dürer’s series dedicated to the Apocalypse comprises 15 engravings and a title sheet. The master worked on this series from 1496 to 1498. In 1511, Dürer repeated his Latin edition and provided it with a prohibition on the series being copied. The Apocalypse was intended for extremely varied levels of society. All of the sheets are united by the theme of the battle between good and evil.
The work refers to a quote from the Revelation of St. John the Divine: “And there was war in heaven...
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16th Century Albrecht Dürer Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Saints Stephen, Sixtus, and Laurentius
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Middletown, NY
circa 1504
Woodcut on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (215 x 148 mm), thread margins. Significant expert repairs to lower right sheet edge, and center right sheet edge. Mino...
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16th Century Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Woodcut
Madonna with a Swaddled Infant
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original engraving printed in black ink on laid paper.
Dated and signed with the artist’s monogram on a tablet lower left.
A superb, richly inked 16th century/lifetime Meder “a” (o...
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Die Heimsuchung (from Marienleben)
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in London, GB
This is one of twenty woodcuts that together comprise The Life of the Virgin, a series on which Dürer worked for some ten years. Seventeen of these woodcuts were finished when the artist left for Italy in 1505. (There they were copied as engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi—much to Dürer’s chagrin.) Dürer finished the last two woodcuts as well as the frontispiece only in 1510. The set was then published in 1511 together with The Large Passion, accompanied by Latin verses written by the Benedictine monk Benedictus Cheledonius. On this occasion Dürer also reissued his Apocalypse series in order to offer his Große Bücher (Great Books...
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16th Century Albrecht Dürer Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Der zwoelfjaehrige Jesus im Tempel - Christ among the doctors
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in London, GB
This is one of twenty woodcuts that together comprise The Life of the Virgin, a series on which Dürer worked for some ten years. Seventeen of these woodcuts were finished when the artist left for Italy in 1505. (There they were copied as engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi—much to Dürer’s chagrin.) Dürer finished the last two woodcuts as well as the frontispiece only in 1510. The set was then published in 1511 together with The Large Passion, accompanied by Latin verses written by the Benedictine monk Benedictus Cheledonius. On this occasion Dürer also reissued his Apocalypse series in order to offer his Große Bücher (Great Books...
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16th Century Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, ca. 1500
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in New York, NY
Albrecht Dürer (1471 – Nuremberg – 1528), The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne ca. 1500, engraving; 115 x 71 mm (4 ½ x 2 13/16 inches), B...
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The Holy Family with Two Musical Angels"
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper bearing the “Large Bear” watermark (Meder 89, typically seen in the earliest impressions of this woodcut).
Dated in the block ...
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Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Madonna and Child with the Monkey
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in San Francisco, CA
A good, clear later 16th century Meder “l” impression, showing strong contrasts throughout, printed after the appearance of the dot in the clouds upper center.
Catalog: Bartsch 42;...
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The Crucifixion (Christ on the Cross) /// Jesus after Albrecht Dürer Old Masters
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Lambrecht Hopfer (German, Active c. 1525-1550)
Title: "The Crucifixion (Christ on the Cross)"
Portfolio: (after) The Engraved Passion
*Issued unsigned, though monogram signed by Hopfer in the plate (printed signature) lower right
Circa: 1530 (second state of three, published c. 1690)
Medium: Original Etching on laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: The Hopfer family, Augsburg, Germany; (David Funck, Nuremberg, Germany)
Publisher: The Hopfer family, Augsburg, Germany; (David Funck, Nuremberg, Germany)
Reference: Bartsch No. VIII.527.12; Hollstein No. 12.II
Framing: Recently framed, the sheet is floated over, and top-matted with a 100% cotton fabric rag mat from Holland in a wood moulding and Museum glass
Framed size: 14.88" x 13.88"
Sheet size: 5.5" x 3.63"
Condition: Trimmed to platemark. A few tiny professional repairs: at elbow of Jesus's right arm and the inside thigh of Jesus. Some light skinning upper right corner and lower right area. It is otherwise a strong impression in good condition
Very rare
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Provenance: private collection - Green Bay, WI; acquired from Sotheby's, New York, NY in c. 2015. The artist Lambrecht Hopfer's printed monogram signature "LH" lower right. The printer/publisher David Funck's (plate) number "182" lower right. This etching is after Albrecht Dürer’s 1511 engraving "The Crucifixion (Christ on the Cross)", ("Dürer-Katalog" - Meder No. 13, page 73). Printed in black from an iron plate. The image depicts Christ on the cross at center, the Virgin at left, two Maries behind her, St. John standing at right, a Roman solider behind him. It is after the eleventh plate of Dürer's sixteen plates from his 1507-1513 "The Engraved Passion" series, ("Dürer-Katalog" - Meder No. 3-18, page 70-74).
"The print was originally designed without the number engraved in the lower margin (First state: Lambrecht Hopfer, c. 1530). The Hopfers' descendant David Funck (Nuremberg, 1642–1705) acquired over two hundred of their original iron plates, engraved numbers into them, and re-printed them around 1686-1700. The "182" indicates that "The Crucifixion" was the 182nd print in Funck’s series (Second state: David Funck, c. 1686-1700). About a century later, 92 of these plates were acquired by Carl Wilhelm Silberberg in Frankfurt and printed for the third and final time in the book "Opera Hopferiana", of which "The Crucifixion" was the 90th print (Third state: Carl Wilhelm Silberberg for "Opera Hopferiana", 1802)". - Elizabeth Upper, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Lambrecht (Lambert) Hopfer (Active c. 1525-1550) was a German Old Masters printmaker. He was the brother of Hieronymus Hopfer (Active c. 1520-1530) and son of Daniel Hopfer...
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16th Century Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Prints and Multiples
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A View of the House of Commons /// George II English Parliament London England
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Benjamin Cole (English, c. 1697-1783)
Title: "A View of the House of Commons"
Portfolio: The History and Survey of London from its Foundation to the Present Time
Year: 1756 (...
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1750s Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Prints and Multiples
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Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation): The 30th Figure - Astrological Diagram with Scene of the Nativity
Woodcut, 1491
Unsigned, as issued
Published by Anton Koberger
Diagram has Zodiac signs on outer ring, planets in the lower registers, and Nativity in the center.
Condition: Very good for a 15h century woodcut, with the usual slight age stains
Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Wogelmut was the teacher of Albrecht Durer and employed young Durer in many project of the last decade of the 15th century.
Michel Wolgemut Biography
Wolgemut trained with his father Valentin Wolgemut (who died in 1469 or 1470) and is thought to have been an assistant to Hans Pleydenwurff in Nuremberg. He worked with Gabriel Malesskircher in Munich early in 1471, leaving the city after unsuccessfully suing Malesskircher's daughter for breach of contract, claiming she had broken off their engagement. He then returned to his late father's workshop in Nuremberg, which his mother had maintained since Valentin's death.
In 1472 he married Pleydenwurff's widow and took over his workshop;[3] her son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff worked as an assistant, and from 1491 a partner, to Wolgemut. Some consider Wilhelm a finer artist than Wolgemut, however he died in January 1494, when he was probably still in his thirties. Wilhelm's oeuvre remains unclear, though works in various media have been attributed to him.
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Michael Wolgemut, Danse Macabre, 1493
Two large and copiously illustrated books have woodcuts supplied by Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; both were printed and published by Germany's largest publisher, the Nuremberger Anton Koberger, who was also Dürer's godfather. The first is the Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichthumer des Heils (1491); the other is the Historia mundi, by Schedel (1493), usually known as the Nuremberg Chronicle...
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The Beheading of the King of England; Enthauptung des Königs in England
By Matthäus Merian the Elder
Located in Middletown, NY
The execution of Charles I (1600-1649) at Whitehall, January 30th 1649, in front of the Banqueting House. The executioner holding the head of Charles up to the crowd below.
Engravin...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Albrecht Dürer Prints and Multiples
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Heaven Canto 9 (The Divine Comedy)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Greenwich, CT
Heaven Canto 9 is a wood engraving on BFK Rives with an image size of 10 x 7" from the popular French edition of the portfolio. Framed in a classic, gold-tone ...
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St. Peter's Square in Basel: 17th Century Engraving by Matthäus Merian
By Matthäus Merian the Elder
Located in Alamo, CA
"Campus Divi Petri qui est Basileae" (St. Peter's Platz in Basel) is a 17th century engraving by the old master engraver Matthäus Merian the Elder...
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Mrs. Fitzherbert /// Richard Cosway Full Length Portrait Engraving Old Masters
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Richard Cosway (English, 1742-1821)
Title: "Mrs. Fitzherbert"
Year: 1792
Medium: Original Hand-Colored Stipple Engraving and Etching on cream laid paper
Limited editi...
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Street in Smyrna
By Marius Bauer
Located in Storrs, CT
Street in Smyrna. 1889. Etching. Wisselingh 34. 7 x 5 1/4 (sheet 12 7/8 x 8 7/8).Edition 100, number 49. A rich, tonal impression printed on Strasbourg cream laid paper on the full s...
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Salvador Dalí, Divine Impenetrability (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Year: 1963
Medium: Wood engraving in colors on Rives BFK paper
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Edition: 4765 in French; 3188 in Italian, plus proofs
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Michler & Löpsinger 1039-1138; Field 189-200
Size: 13 x 10.25 inches
Condition: Excellent
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Salvador Dalí, Siren of the Dream (M/L.1039-1138; F.189-200)
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Suite: Göttliche Komödie (The Divine Comedy)
Year: 1974
Medium: Wood engraving in colors on BFK Rives wove paper tipped to Arches paper mounts
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Frankfort, Germany: A 16th Century Hand-colored Map by Braun & Hogenberg
By Franz Hogenberg
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 16th century original hand-colored copperplate engraved map of Frankfort, Germany entitled "Francenbergum, vel ut alij Francoburgum Hassiae Opp" by Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg, from their famous city atlas "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", published in Cologne, Germany in 1595.
This is an English translation of an excerpt from the original text in the atlas:
"Frankenberg or, according to others, Francoburgum, a town in Hesse. Charlemagne vested the town of Frankenberg with many freedoms and privileges, which it still enjoys to this day, and on account of its valiant and victorious soldiers awarded a signet, upon which there formerly appeared a golden castle with a tower, together with the letter F and a golden crown.
Frankenberg, seen here from the northeast, lies on a hill above the River Eder. The hillside is covered with fields neatly separated by bushes and fences. Soaring above the town is the massive Liebfrauenkirche, which was modelled on St Elizabeth's church in Marburg. The New Town was founded in 1335 at the foot of the hill (right) and merged with the Old Town as late as 1556. Frankenberg was founded by Conrad of Thuringia in 1233/34 to prevent the archbishops of Mainz from expanding their sphere of influence...
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Plate 38 (Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser Les Chevaux) /// Horse Animal
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Abraham van Diepenbeeck (Dutch, 1596-1675)
Title: "Plate 38 (Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser Les Chevaux)"
Portfolio: "Methode...
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Saint Thomas
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Greenwich, CT
Albrecht Dürer (1471 – Nuremberg – 1528),
St. Thomas , 1514,
engraving
118x70 mm; 4 ½ x 2 ¾ inches
matted : approx. 9 x 7 inches
Bartsch 48 ; Meder 50
Provenance:
Private colle...
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Dürer, Life of Virgin, Marriage of Virgin, Woodcut
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Greven, DE
Dürer
Marriage of the Virgin
One of the series of 20 woodcuts, without text, before a temple, a priest uniting the right hands of the Virgin Mary and St Joseph, on the right behind t...
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Dürer, Life of Virgin, Marriage of Virgin, Woodcut
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Greven, DE
Dürer
Marriage of the Virgin
One of the series of 20 woodcuts, without text, before a temple, a priest uniting the right hands of the Virgin Mar...
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The Holy Family with the Three Hares
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in New York, NY
A very good, evenly-printed Meder h impression of this woodcut. Strong contrasts and the breaks in the border line but with less wear in the subject.
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Christ Carrying the Cross - Small Passion - Woodcut - 16thC Proof Impression
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Albrecht Dürer
(German, 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528)
Christ Carrying the Cross
Woodcut, ca. 100 x 127 mm
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Madonna Crowned by One Angel
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original engraving printed in black ink on laid paper.
Dated and signed with the artist’s monogram in the plate on a tablet lower right.
A fine 16th century/lifetime impression of ...
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THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI - from Life of the Virgin (see also posted M Raimondi)
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ALRECHT DURER (1471 - 1528)
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI - 1503 (11).( Meder 199, Hollstein 199, Bartsch 87). Original Woodcut, Plate 12 from the series "The Life of the Virgin" (Meder...
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'The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin' woodblock print by Albrecht Dürer
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin' is an excellent impression of the woodblock by Albrecht Dürer. The print depicts an unusual comb...
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"Christ Before Caiaphas, from The Small Passion" Woodcut Print
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Houston, TX
Albrecht Durer's original woodcut print titled "Christ Before Caiaphas" from The Small Passion, a series of 36 woodcuts. Very good impression from the first edition of 1511. The prin...
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Madonna with a Swaddled Infant
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original engraving printed in black ink on laid paper.
Dated and signed with the artist's monogram on a tablet lower left.
A richly inked 16th century/lifetime Meder “b” (of e) imp...
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Die Heimsuchung (from Marienleben)
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in London, GB
This is one of twenty woodcuts that together comprise The Life of the Virgin, a series on which Dürer worked for some ten years. Seventeen of these woodcuts were finished when the artist left for Italy in 1505. (There they were copied as engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi—much to Dürer’s chagrin.) Dürer finished the last two woodcuts as well as the frontispiece only in 1510. The set was then published in 1511 together with The Large Passion, accompanied by Latin verses written by the Benedictine monk Benedictus Cheledonius. On this occasion Dürer also reissued his Apocalypse series in order to offer his Große Bücher (Great Books...
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Christ Taking Leave of His Mother
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From: The Small Woodcut Passion (Title page and 36 woodcuts of the Life of Christ.
This impression from the 1st published edition of 1511 with Latin text verso
With the four small gaps along the top right block edge
The subject is taken from St. Bonaventura's Vita Christi. It does not appear in the Scripture of the Legenda Aurea
Provenance: Karl de Paar (1772-1819), Collector's Mark on reverse: Lugt 2009, Vienna collector know for Durer prints...
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