R938: The Good Samaritan Putting the Traveller on His Donkey

Identification and Creation

Object Number

R938

People

Anonymous
After Heinrich Aldegrever, German (Paderborn, Germany 1502 - after 1555 Soest, Germany)

Title

The Good Samaritan Putting the Traveller on His Donkey

Other Titles

Alternate Title: The Good Samaritan Lifting the Wounded Man upon his Mule
Series/Book Title: The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1554

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Germany

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/247439

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Engraving printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 7.8 × 10.8 cm (3 1/16 × 4 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: in plate, bottom margin: SAMARITANVS IMPOSTIVM IVMENTO HIC IN DIVERSORIVM ABDVCIT, EINSQVE CVRAM AGIT LVC 10
• inscription: in design, bottom, on stone: 1554 / AG [monogram]
• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Randal Collection accession stamp (Lugt 2130)] 938
• inscription: verso, brown ink: R 1/R
• inscription: verso, graphite: x [or +] 816

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

New Hollstein 42 copy a, Bartsch 42 (copy)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall

Object Number

R938

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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