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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M12290
People
Unidentified Artist
After Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
The Four Riders of the Apocalypse
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Apocalypse
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/255286

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black in on white laid paper, darkened to cream
Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
block: 39 × 28 cm (15 3/8 × 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp: P.J.S. [Paul J. Sachs (Lugt
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in Paul J. Sachs's hand: Copy / PJS
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: B. 64 / Heller 1664. / Original / Revelation Chapter 6, verso 1. / a21809 [struck through] / Beautiful impression. / a46944 / 1 [over] 3
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite: THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12290 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Bartsch 64; Meder 167

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
M12290
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • A. Daniel Frankforter and William M. Spellman, The West: Culture and Ideas, Pearson Prentice Hall (Saddle River, NJ, 2004), 318/13-3

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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