The Sea Monster, 1498

Title

The Sea Monster

Artist

• Albrecht Dürer

Period Produced

• 15th century

Object Type

• art print

Material

• handmade paper

Technique

• copperplate engraving

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Monogrammiert unten Mitte: AD

Work Catalogues

• Bartsch VII.84.71 1a
• Meder 1932.96.66
• Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 1.73.21
• Hollstein German VII.59.66
• TIB 1001.071

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• mythological representation
• historical narration
• nude
• landscape

Main Motif

• force
• couple
• woman
• man
• group of people
• riverscape

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Triton
• Poseidon
• Amymone
• Danaus
• Argonauts
• Glaucus
• Syme
• Theudelinde (queen of the Lombards)

Associated Source

• Dresdner Heldenbuch: Theodelind und das Meerwunder, Nürnberg 1472, Bl. 193r-199v

Primary

• 25I5 landscape with tower or castle
• 41D92 woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude
• 33B4 abducting
• 31A2773 swimming (movement in water)

Secondary

• 25H213 river
• 25H11 mountains

Associative

• 31A4561 merman
• 92H1212 Neptune wooing Amymone, Danaus' daughter