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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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