Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives
National Gallery of Art
34 documented works

Sadeler I, Jan
A Pleasure House
1588
engraving on laid paper
sheet (trimmed within plate at bottom): 38.6 × 48.2 cm (15 3/16 × 19 in.)
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Collaert, Adriaen
Aër (Air)
after 1587
engraving on laid paper
plate: 17.2 × 21.2 cm (6 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.) sheet: 17.6 × 21.5 cm (6 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
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Collaert, Adriaen
Aqua (Water)
after 1587
engraving on laid paper
plate: 17 × 21 cm (6 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 17.4 × 21.5 cm (6 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
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German 15th Century
Arms of the Bishopric of Eichstätt and of Its Bishop, Wilhelm of Reichenau
1480
engraving on laid paper
sheet: 16.2 × 14.9 cm (6 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.) image: 14.5 × 14.5 cm (5 11/16 × 5 11/16 in.) (round)
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Schön, Erhard
Army Train and Death
c. 1532
woodcut from four blocks, on four sheets
overall: 31.2 × 156.5 cm (12 5/16 × 61 5/8 in.)
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Sadeler I, Jan
Bacchus Seated on a Barrel between Amor and Music
c. 1590
engraving on laid paper
plate: 44 × 29.5 cm (17 5/16 × 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 53.1 × 37.5 cm (20 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.)
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Lützelburger, Hans
Battle of Naked Men and Peasants
1522
woodcut on laid paper
image: 15 × 29.6 cm (5 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.) sheet: 18.5 × 30 cm (7 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
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Sweelinck, Gerrit Pietersz
Charity with Faith and Hope
c. 1593
etching on laid paper
plate: 26 × 19.2 cm (10 1/4 × 7 9/16 in.) sheet: 34 × 25.1 cm (13 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.)
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Dürer, Albrecht
Christ on the Mount of Olives
1508 and 1580s
engraving hand-colored with watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold and silver, on laid paper mounted to a piece of parchment decorated with floral borders
printed sheet (trimmed to platemark): 17.5 × 12.8 cm (6 7/8 × 5 1/16 in.) vellum sheet: 25 × 22.5 cm (9 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
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Hopfer, Daniel
Emperor Charles V
1520 (1521?)
etching (iron) with open biting and unique contemporary hand-coloring in green, red, yellow, pink and brown
plate: 22 x 15.3 cm (8 11/16 x 6 in.) sheet: 22.1 x 15.6 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
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Dürer, Albrecht
Emperor Maximilian I
1519
woodcut on laid paper
sheet: 54.7 × 38.1 cm (21 9/16 × 15 in.)
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Cock, Hieronymus
Grotesque with Strapwork in the Form of a Cartouche
1557
etching with engraving on laid paper
sheet: 34.8 × 24.8 cm (13 11/16 × 9 3/4 in.) plate: 31 × 20.8 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
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Collaert, Adriaen
Ignis (Fire)
after 1587
engraving on laid paper
plate (approx): 17.2 × 21.2 cm (6 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.) sheet (approx): 17.6 × 21.5 cm (6 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
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Holbein the Younger, Hans
Imagines Mortis (Images of Death)
c. 1526; published 1545
bound volume with 44 woodcut illustrations including 1 title vignette, 1 initial, 41 in-text illustrations, and 1 illustration before the epilogue
book: 13.8 × 9.7 × 1.3 cm (5 7/16 × 3 13/16 × 1/2 in.)
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Goltzius, Hendrick
Juno
1596
engraving on laid paper
sheet: 33.8 x 25.3 cm (13 5/16 x 9 15/16 in.) (trimmed within plate mark)
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Cock, Hieronymus
Landscape with the Baptism of Christ
c. 1562
etching and engraving on laid paper
plate: 24.6 × 32.7 cm (9 11/16 × 12 7/8 in.) sheet: 24.9 × 33.8 cm (9 13/16 × 13 5/16 in.)
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Vos, Maarten de
Magnificat: The Virgin Surrounded by Music-Making Angels
1585
engraving on laid paper
sheet: 20.9 × 29.3 cm (8 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.) mount: 21.6 × 29.9 cm (8 1/2 × 11 3/4 in.)
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Cranach the Elder, Lucas
Martin Luther
1523
etching on laid paper
sheet: 22.8 × 15.3 cm (9 × 6 in.)
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Goltzius, Hendrick
Minerva
1596
engraving on laid paper
sheet: 33.9 x 25 cm (13 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.) (trimmed within plate mark)
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Vredeman de Vries, Hans
Perspective View of a Street
1560
etching with engraving on laid paper
plate: 21 × 26 cm (8 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 25.5 × 36.3 cm (10 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
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Dürer, Albrecht
Saint Jerome Penitent in the Wilderness
c. 1496
engraving on laid paper
sheet: 31.7 x 22.3 cm (12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.)
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Cock, Hieronymus
Shrove Tuesday
1567
engraving on laid paper
plate: 22.3 × 28.8 cm (8 3/4 × 11 5/16 in.) sheet: 26.2 × 31.8 cm (10 5/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
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Graf I, Urs
Standard-Bearer for the Canton of Bern
1521
white-line woodcut on laid paper
image: 19.1 x 10.6 cm (7 1/2 x 4 3/16 in.) (irregular) mount: 21.5 x 13.5 cm (8 7/16 x 5 5/16 in.) (irregular)
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Collaert, Adriaen
Terra (Earth)
after 1587
engraving on laid paper
plate: 17.1 × 21 cm (6 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.) sheet: 17.5 × 21.2 cm (6 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
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Master E.S.
The Apostle Simon Zelotes
c. 1460/1465
engraving on laid paper
sheet: 14.7 × 8.9 cm (5 13/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
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Bruegel the Elder, Pieter
The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins
c. 1560/1563
engraving on laid paper
plate: 22.3 × 29.2 cm (8 3/4 × 11 1/2 in.) sheet: 24.6 × 31.9 cm (9 11/16 × 12 9/16 in.)
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Raphael
The Triumph of Galatea
1592
engraving on laid paper
plate: 55.7 × 41.8 cm (21 15/16 × 16 7/16 in.) sheet: 55.9 × 41.8 cm (22 × 16 7/16 in.)
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Breu the Elder, Jörg
The Virgin and Child with Saint Conrad and Saint Pelagius
1504
hand-colored woodcut on laid paper
sheet: 24.4 × 14.1 cm (9 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.) mount: 31 × 26.2 cm (12 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
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Hopfer, Daniel
Three German Soldiers Armed with Halberds
c. 1510
etching (iron) on laid paper
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 8.7 x 13.2 cm (3 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
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Goltzius, Hendrick
Venus and Cupid
1596
engraving on laid paper
plate: 34.3 x 25.5 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.) sheet: 35.6 x 25.9 cm (14 x 10 3/16 in.)
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Spranger, Bartholomaeus
Venus Honored by the Nymphs
c. 1591
engraving on laid paper
sheet: 29.2 × 21.3 cm (11 1/2 × 8 3/8 in.)
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Master CR
View across a River to a Walled City at Sunset
1540s
etching on laid paper
plate: 15.5 × 23.1 cm (6 1/8 × 9 1/8 in.) sheet: 17.8 × 24.3 cm (7 × 9 9/16 in.)
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Lautensack, Hanns
View of Steyr on Enns
1554
etching on laid paper
sheet: 11.1 × 16.9 cm (4 3/8 × 6 5/8 in.) (trimmed)
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