Liber Bilibaldi Pirckheimer (Bookplate of Willibald Pirckheimer)

1502

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed from two blocks on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17 × 11.8 cm (6 11/16 × 4 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.1.1.b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 280.1

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Associated Artworks

A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes

Albrecht Dürer

1496

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Willibald Pirckheimer [1470-1530]; then by descent, possibly through Pirckheimer's sister, Barbara Straube [died 1560] or his eldest daughter, Felicitas; the collection reunited through Felicitas' husband, Willibald Imhoff; then by descent to Hans Hieronymous Imhoff; by whom sold to Matthäus van Overbeck [died 1638], 1634; Earl of Sunderland (library shelfmark, B4:36, on inside front cover) (sale, London, Puttick and Simpson, 16 March 1883, lot 12, 345, to Quartich); Howell Wills (sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 July 1894, lot 831, to Quaritch, from whom acquired by Yates Thompson in 1897); Henry Yates Thompson (sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 June 1919, lot 29, bought in and subsequently presented by Yates Thompson to the London Library); London Library (sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 June 1966, lot 66); purchased by Edelmann; Schickedanz collection; (Rolf Kistner, Nuremberg); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 14 May 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1897

  • Monuments in Typography, Quaritch, London, 1897, no. 307.

1906

  • Early German Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1906, no. 23 (as attributed to Durer).

1971

  • Albrech Dürer 1471-1971, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1971, no. 296.

1986

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 57.

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 48.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 47.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 58.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 19.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

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.

Inscriptions

in top block, inscription in Hebrew, Greek and Latin [Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom]; in lower block, at center: SIBI ET AMICIS.P. [ositus]; in lower block, along bottom: LIBER BILIBALDI PIRCKHEIMER

Watermarks

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