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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M23401
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Albrecht Dūrer
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of Albrecht Dürer
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1645
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/263246

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 22.2 × 16 cm (8 3/4 × 6 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, bottom margin: Effigies ALBERTE, tuæ DVRERE iuuente, / Sed non Virtutúm, talis in Orbe viget; // Ars si se, genium, moresq referre valeret, / Clarior vlla tuà non foret effigies. / L. Lancelottus iuue. / ipse Albertus. Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemus fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, Ao 1645. Antverpiae,
  • watermark: partial: Foolshead
  • inscription: in plate, below window: 1498 / AD [monogram]
  • inscription: in plate, lower edge of image area: Das macht ich nach meiner gestalt / Ich was sex und zwantzig Jar alt. Albrecht Dūrer.
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] M23401
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: Parthay 1390 / K-M / N. 299

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 693, Pennington 1390

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Daniel Bell
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
M23401
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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