R5735: Knight, Death and the Devil (reverse copy)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

R5735

People

Johannes Wierix, Netherlandish (Antwerp 1549 - c. 1620 Brussels)
After Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)

Title

Knight, Death and the Devil (reverse copy)

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1564

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/250813

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

Plate: 24.6 × 18.8 cm (9 11/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: loer right corner, on a tablet, engraved date: 1564
• inscription: verso, graphite: No 3122 1B8 [over a line; under the line:] 425 [all within an oval borderline]
• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written within in brown ink: JOHN WITT RANDALL COLL. / HARVARD COLLEGE / no. 5735 [number on a dotted line] [Lugt 2130]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

ii/v

Standard Reference Number

Hollstein 1484; Alvin 1192

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Object Number

R5735

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• A Colloquium in the Visual Arts, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2022 - 12/30/2022

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