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Coat of Arms of Wilhelm and Wolfgang Rogendorf

A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

Date:

1864 (copy); 1520 (original)

Artist:

After Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471-1528
Ralf Leopold von Retberg-Wettbergen
German, 1812-1885

About this artwork

Albrecht Dürer made this sizable coat of arms woodcut for the Rogendorf family, whom he met while en route to the Netherlands, where he had the two large blocks for the work cut. The print survives in only one damaged impression, now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. This 19th-century facsimile in the then-new medium of lithography supplies the missing leafage in the lower right and imagines the colored print in black and white. In fact, the surviving sheet’s lavish coloring enhances its heraldic significance: two fields are blue with a golden star above a set of golden battlements; in the others, double-tailed lions appear rampant in red on silver.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Albrecht Dürer

Title

Coat of Arms of Wilhelm and Wolfgang Rogendorf

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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Copy 1864

Medium

Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 62.8 × 44.8 cm (24 3/4 × 17 11/16 in.); Sheet: 64.8 × 46.4 cm (25 9/16 × 18 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Charles Deering Collection

Reference Number

1927.2905

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