The Lamentation

c. 1470/1480

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 7.9 × 6 cm (3 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.1.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 4, p.220, no. 15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrich Eisemann [1890-1972], London; purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1949; gift to NGA, 1950.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 252, repro.

Bibliography

1908

  • Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1967

  • Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 252.

Inscriptions

at top left, in plate: ihs [Jesus]; at top right, in plate: ma [Mary]; on banderole at right, in plate: O maria tua dolori ora p me (Oh Mary of sorrows, pray for me) [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 252.]

Wikidata ID

Q65070324

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