# Dürer engraves the 1526 portrait of Erasmus

Date: 1526

## The fact

In 1526 [Dürer](/people/albrecht-durer) issued an engraved portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam. The dated plate is not the Four Apostles gift and not a Maximilian woodcut. Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is: He engraved Erasmus from earlier drawings after the Netherlandish journey. Erasmus sat earlier; the 1526 plate is Dürer’s print. Do not twin this with Maximilian portrait commissions. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Albrecht Dürer's documented role is: He engraved Erasmus from earlier drawings after the Netherlandish journey. Erasmus sat earlier; the 1526 plate is Dürer’s print.

## Context

Antwerp drawings of 1520, Erasmus’s fame, and a Latin inscription share the plate. A scholar’s face is not unique authorship of the Enchiridion. Later restrikes are not first state. Named others on the file: Erasmus as sitter-from-drawings, unnamed printers, and later collectors share the plate’s spread. The public setting is the file around 1526-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Dürer engraves the 1526 portrait of Erasmus. The setting of Dürer engraves the 1526 portrait of Erasmus is the public file around 1526-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Dürer engraves the 1526 portrait of Erasmus. Naming Albrecht Dürer does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1526-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Met and Britannica independently date the 1526 Erasmus engraving. Official: The Met — Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam 1526 (https://www.metmuseum.org/; The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Independent: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus engraving (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: The Met — Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam 1526 (https://www.metmuseum.org/; The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Independent carrier: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus engraving (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: The Met — Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam 1526 (https://www.metmuseum.org/; The Metropolitan Museum of Art).

## Significance

Improving education-access path: a public humanist portrait print. Complex because the sitting was earlier than the plate. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated scholar-portrait print put a public humanist face into the northern print market. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1526 Erasmus engraving. Not established: that Erasmus uniquely posed in 1526. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer engraves the 1526 portrait of Erasmus under 1526-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer engraves the 1526 portrait of Erasmus under 1526-01-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with Maximilian portrait commissions. Mixed effects of Dürer engraves the 1526 portrait of Erasmus are separate paths.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Albrecht Dürer: https://factrail.ai/people/albrecht-durer

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist
- https://www.metmuseum.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-erasmus-engraving-1526