Bookplate of Willibald Pirckheimer
1529
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate/sheet: 15 × 8.5 cm (5 15/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
61022
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This engraved bookplate was made for Albrecht Dürer’s best friend, the Nuremberg humanist Willibald Pirckheimer. The artist created a circular preparatory drawing of an allegory of three women pounding a heart on an anvil in 1528. When Dürer died prematurely that year, leaving the work unfinished, his student the Master I. B. adapted it into the final printed design. Pirckheimer used the print as an ex libris along with Dürer’s portrait of him at least twice, in a 1502 edition of Dante’s Divine ...
About the Artist
Master I.B. (German) · 1525 –1530
German, active 1525–1530