National Gallery of Art · Print
Albrecht Durer
Melchior Lorch
- Date
- 1550
- Medium
- engraving
- Classification
- Accession number
- 1943.3.5722
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1501 to 1550
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- German
- Portrait
- Face
- Man
- Writing
Inscription
lower left, on fictive sheet of paper, in plate: (To whom the Apollonian gods bestowed their gifts, the man whom learned Athena nourished at her own breast. Such a man you see here, with his visage and comely hair. He lived for fifty-six years. / On the image of Albrecht Dürer. [translation from Bartrum, Giulia (ed). "Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy," exh. cat., British Museum, London, 2002, no.14, pp. 87-88.])
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