Lettered on the plate underneath the image, verses in Latin by Giovanni Paolo Lancellotti below image: Effigies ALBERTE tuæ DVRERE inuente / Sed non Virtutum, talis in Orbe viget; / Ars si se, genium moresq[ue] referre valeret / Clarior ulla tua non foret effigies; artists' names along bottom: ipse Albertus Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemus fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, Ao. 1645. Antuerpiæ; and within the design: 1498 / AD / Das macht ich nach meiner gestalt Ich was sex und zwantzig Jar alt. Albrecht Dürer.
Original painting in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Pennington following Levey suggests that Hollar might have copied a copy, possibly by Richard Greenbury.
Item mounted onto leaf 138 of v. 1 of a set of 4 scrapbooks compiled by William Upcott containing prints and portraits, autographs, manuscripts, facsimiles, ephemera and printed memorabilia, clippings, and original drawings pertaining to the lives of notable persons (see PML 146429-32).
Library's copy closely trimmed within plate mark.
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer; half-length, slightly turned to left, wearing striped cap and loose doublet with striped sleeves; mountainous landscape seen through open window in the background.