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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M10314
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Christ in Limbo
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Large Woodcut Passion
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1510
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/255259

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black on white antique laid paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
block: 39.6 x 28.4 cm (15 9/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: verso, brown stamp with brown ink inscription: Vom / H. Kupferstichkabinet / in Berlin / Veräussert / a. 86 [within a rectangular double borderline with nipped corners [in Lugt but not available today]
  • stamp: verso, underneath Kuperfstichkabinet deaccession stamp, stamp in brown ink: Koniglicites Kuppekstich Cabinet [ as an oval border around an eagle with 1817 below (in Lugt but unavailable today)
  • watermark: Meder watermark 316: MV centered by a cross
  • inscription: woodcut artist's monogram on a stone block at Christ's knee and date on a stone black at Christ's head printed in black ink: AD / 1510
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: B. 14. / Dp. [crossed-out numbers with written below: 39, 1880 [underlined] / [illeg. / D 14 / A69743 / No. 14
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite: THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 10,314 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
proof before letters, Meder b/b
Standard Reference Number
Bartsch 14, Meder 121

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
M10314
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Helene E. Roberts, ed., Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (Chicago, 1998), 1/200

Exhibition History

  • Dürer's Passions, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/09/2000 - 12/03/2000
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/12/2017 - 07/18/2018

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