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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25882
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Column of Victory for the Subjugation of the Peasants
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Monument to the Suppression of the Peasants Rebellion
Series/Book Title: Underweysung der Messung, mit dem Zirckel unnd richt scheyt...
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1525
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/166978

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
sheet: 26.5 x 19.5 cm (10 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • legend: yes, lower range of column plinth, printer's ink, woodcut: date: ANNO DOMINE / 1525
  • inscription: verso, graphite: [collector's inscription (Hofer):]: Bot of H. Wallach / Feb. 1956 for $13.50]
  • inscription: recto, woodcut in imitation of typography printed in black ink : [numbers establishing proportional relations to the left of the column and at its bottom edge] / [in a cartouche at the base of the column:] ANNO DOMINI / 1525
  • inscription: lower right corner, graphite: 1083
  • inscription: verso, text printed with type in black ink, above a woodcut design for the base of the column, with sheeps. cattle, and pigs, and baskets of cheese and eggs: Welicher ein...aufgernssen.
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with accession number written below in graphite: THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / M25882 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Philip Hofer, purchase from H. Wallach, 1956.
H. Wallach, 1956.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
1525
Standard Reference Number
Strauss 205c

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James A. Bergquist
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
M25882
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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