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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M9786
People
Sebald Beham, German (Nuremberg 1500 - 1550 Frankfurt am Main)
Title
The Hour of Death
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
16th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/259479

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Chiaroscuro woodcut
Dimensions
38.8 × 28 cm (15 1/4 × 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): written on old mat: rare "legs of woman have been put in by some clumsy workman?" WGRA

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Horace M. Swope, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iii (of the copy)
Standard Reference Number
Pauli 1122a, Dod. I,473, no. 129

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Horace M. Swope, Class of 1905
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
M9786
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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