Coat of Arms with Lion and Rooster

Prints and Drawings

c. 1503

Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471-1528

Albrecht Dürer’s imaginary coat of arms is one of the Art Institute’s finest impressions, with a great delicacy of line and range of tonal values and textures. Though he produced a number of literal portraits as well as abstract family crests, Dürer’s over-the-top treatment of the flowing drapery, and the seemingly living symbols—crowing rooster, and lion rampant— on the crest and shield suggest the artist enjoyed taking a stale iconographic convention to its extremes.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Title: Coat of Arms with Lion and Rooster
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1498–1508
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 18.2 × 11.8 cm (7 3/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
Reference Number: 1956.938
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Meder 97 a/g

Bartsch 100

Strauss 31

Schoch, Mende, & Scherbaum 35

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