Death Seated Upon a Tree; Below Two Soldiers and a Lady with Her Dog

Identification and Creation

Object Number: R1813
People: Urs Graf, Swiss (Solothurn canton, Switzerland c. 1485 - 1527/28 Basel-stadt, Switzerland)
Title: Death Seated Upon a Tree; Below Two Soldiers and a Lady with Her Dog
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1524
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/246087

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Woodcut

Dimensions

20.3 × 11.7 cm (8 × 4 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: JWR[transcribed from original mount]: Urse Graf b 1475. Copy. Engraved copy of a
woodcut. From Ottley.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Bartsch 16, Hollstein 28, Bartrum 225

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number: R1813
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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