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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M2700
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Albrecht Dürer
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1645
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/256330

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed inblack ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 23 × 16.7 cm (9 1/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
sheet: 26.5 × 19.5 cm (10 7/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin: Effigies ALBERTE tuæ DVRERE iuuente, / Sed non Virtutum, talis in Orbe viget; // Ars si se, genium, moresq referre valeret, / Clarior vlla tua non foret effigies. / L. Lancelottus lu.[illeg.] // ipse Albertus. Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemus fecit, ex Collectione Arundeliana, Ao. 1645. Antverpiæ.
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp: GR [within a borderline; Georg Rath (Lugt 1206)]
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp: [elaborate armorial within a circular borderline; Ivan Izaklevitch de Kouriss (Lugt 2722)]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp: p.j.s [Paul J. Sachs (Lugt 2091)]
  • watermark: Foolscap [partial]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] 2700
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 3U / Hollar / Portrait of Albert Dürer. / a 41664 / H._ / P. 1390

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 693, Pennington 1390

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1924
Object Number
M2700
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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