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The Four Witches

Engraving
1497 (engraved)
Artist/Maker
Durer (artist)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (engraved)

Engraving


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Engraving
TitleThe Four Witches (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving print on paper
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
Engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 'The Four Witches'; Nuremberg, 1497.
Physical description
Engraving
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.5cm
  • Width: 13.7cm
Style
Northern Renaissance
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'AD' (Artist's monogram inscribed in plate at bottom middle)
  • '1497' (Date inscribed on hanging globe / mandrake fruit at the top middle)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G. E. Carthew
Subjects depicted
Witches
Nudes
Women
Three Graces
Devil
Satan
Bibliographic references
  • Strauss, Walter L., ed. The Illustrated Bartsch 10 (Commentary): Sixteenth Century German Artists, Albrecht Dürer. New York: Abaris Books, 1980. 328 p., ill. ISBN 089835000X. No.75, pp.167-168.
  • Heller, Joseph. Das Leben und die Werke Albrecht Dürer. Bamberg: 1827. Vols. 2 & 3 (vol. 1 was not published). No.861
  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog: Ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna, 1932. No.69.
  • Dodgson, Campbell. Albrecht Dürer, Numerical Catalogue of the Engravings, Etchings, Dry-Points with Technical Details, London 1926. No.14.
  • Tietze, Hans and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. Vol. 1, Augsburg 1928; vol.2, Basel and Leipzig 1937; vol.3, Basel and Leipzig, 1938. No.122.
  • Panofsky, Erwin. Albrecht Dürer. Princeton 1943. (Addenda in the editions of 1945 and 1948). No.182 & p.73.
  • Strauss, W.L. The Intaglio Prints of Albrecht Dürer . New York, 1977. No.19.
  • Hollstein, F.W.H. German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, c.1400-1700. Volume VII. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1954-. No.69.
  • Rowlands, J.K. The Graphic Work of Albrecht Dürer: An Exhibition of his Prints and Drawings in Commemoration of the Quincentenary of his Birth. London: British Museum, 1971. Exhibition catalogue. No.45.
  • Schoch, R., M. Mende and A. Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer. Das Druckgraphische Werk. Band I: Kupferstiche, Eisenradierungen und Kaltnadelblätter. Munich, London, New York, 2001. No.17.
  • Bartrum, Guilia, ed. Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy - The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist / with contributions by Günter Grass, Joseph L. Koerner and Ute Kuhlemann. London: The British Museum Press, 2002. 320 p., ill. ISBN 0714126330. No.176, p.227.
  • Poesch, J. Sources for Two Dürer Enigmas. Art Bulletin. 1964, xlvi. pp.78ff.
Other number
B.75 - Le Peintre-Graveur
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.632-1940

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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