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Identification and Creation

Object Number
23.1988
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Christ on the Mount of Olives
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1515
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/238151

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate:: 22.3 × 15.7 cm (8 3/4 × 6 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on ground, center foreground, engraved artist's monogram and date printed in black ink: 1515 / AD
  • collector's mark: verso, brown ink followed by numerals in graphite: G. Storck in Milano 1798 / [illeg.] # 8238 .l. 2318 [Giuseppi Storck (Lugt 2318 ]
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp followed by an identifying inscription in graphite: CP [within a circular borderline] A. C. de Poggi L. 617 (Antonio Cesare Poggi (Lugt 617)]
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: HDD [monogram] {Defer-Dumesnil Collection (Lugt 739)]
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with numerals written within in graphite: [cat's head shape] 84 [Marjorie B. Cohn]
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: P 8062/£70 / B. 19 / SH [underlined] [and several illegible inscriptions]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Meder 1b
Standard Reference Number
Bartsch 19, Meder 19, Strauss 82

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Jakob Rosenberg
Object Number
23.1988
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Susan Dackerman, "Dürer's etchings: printed drawings?", exh. cat., ed. Michael Cole, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, Penn., 2006), repr. as fig 28 on p. 40

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