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Coat-of-Arms with Lion and Rooster

Print
ca. 1502 (engraved)
Artist/Maker
Dürer, Albrecht (artist)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (engraved)

Engraving print on paper; inscribed with artist's monogram. A cockerel perches atop a helmet which is in turn balanced on a shield. The cock has his wings outspread and his beak open in a triumphant or warning crow. Beneath him, elaborate streams of acanthus foliage or pennants twist, swirl and spiral forth from the helmet to either side of the shield in a virtuoso display of ornamental design. The shield bears a heraldic emblem of a semi-naturalistic rampant lion with a fierce expression and claws extended.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Heraldry
Object type
Print
TitleCoat-of-Arms with Lion and Rooster (generic title)
Materials and techniques
engraving print on paper
Printing Ink
Paper
Engraving
Brief description
The Coat of Arms with the Cock, engraving, Albrecht Dürer, Germany, c. 1502
Physical description
Engraving print on paper; inscribed with artist's monogram. A cockerel perches atop a helmet which is in turn balanced on a shield. The cock has his wings outspread and his beak open in a triumphant or warning crow. Beneath him, elaborate streams of acanthus foliage or pennants twist, swirl and spiral forth from the helmet to either side of the shield in a virtuoso display of ornamental design. The shield bears a heraldic emblem of a semi-naturalistic rampant lion with a fierce expression and claws extended.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.5cm
  • Width: 11.7cm
Style
Renaissance
Marks and inscriptions
'AD' (Artist's monogram inscribed at lower right)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew
Subjects depicted
Coats of Arms
Escutcheons
Helmets
Lions
Roosters
Associated objects
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.100, pp.221-222.
  • 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. p.148.
  • Panofsky, Erwin. Albrecht Dürer. Princeton 1943. (Addenda in the editions of 1945 and 1948). No.207.
  • Heller, Joseph. Das Leben und die Werke Albrecht Dürer. Bamberg: 1827. Vols. 2 & 3 (vol. 1 was not published). No.1020.
  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog: Ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna, 1932. No.97.
  • Dodgson, Campbell. Albrecht Dürer, Numerical Catalogue of the Engravings, Etchings, Dry-Points with Technical Details. London, 1926. No.37.
  • 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.212.
  • Strauss, W.L. The Intaglio Prints of Albrecht Dürer . New York, 1977. No.31.
Other number
B.100 - Le Peintre-Graveur
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.578-1940

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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