- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- G1055
- People
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Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
- Title
- Adam and Eve
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: The Fall of Man
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1504
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/274094
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, lined
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 25.1 × 19.2 cm (9 7/8 × 7 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark:
- inscription: verso, graphite: fr Ev. [Evans] Apr. 56 / £ [illeg.] 15.15
- collector's mark: verso, graphite: E. H. G. [Edward Hale Greenleaf (Lugt 5207)]
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: GRAY COLLECTION, / Harvard College / 1055 [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]
- inscription: in plate, on tablet hanging from tree: ALBERT9 / DVRER / NORICVS / FACIEBAT / 1504
- Provenance
- Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- iia/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- Bartsch 1, Schroch 39, Meder 1
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G1055
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Reimagining the Past: André Brink in Conversation with Reingard Nethersole, T'kama-Adamastor: Inventions of Africa in a South African Painting, ed. Ivan Vladislavic, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa), p. 53, fig. 79, p. 53, fig. 79
Jonathan Shaw and Jennifer Carling, "Spheres of Knowledge: Artistic discovery in Renaissance Europe", Harvard Magazine (Cambridge, MA, November-December 2011), vol. 114, no. 2, pp.42-47, p 46
Susan Dackerman, ed., Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2011), cat. 53 p. 234-235, repr
- Exhibition History
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Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984
Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/06/2011 - 12/10/2011; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, 01/17/2012 - 04/08/2012
32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/11/2015 - 05/10/2015
Adam and Eve, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/01/2018 - 01/06/2019
A Colloquium in the Visual Arts, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2022 - 12/31/2022
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