- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- G21
- People
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Heinrich Aldegrever, German (Paderborn, Germany 1502 - after 1555 Soest, Germany)
- Title
- Self-Portrait
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Self-Portrait of the Artist at the Age of Twenty-Eight
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1530
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/277505
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- plate: 14.7 × 10.5 cm (5 13/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in design, top: ALDEGREVERS HEC EST PRAESENS PICTORIS IMAGO / HENRICI . PROPRIAE QVAM GENVERE MANVS: / ANNO SVE AETATIS XXVIII:
- inscription: in design, bottom: ANNO . DOMINI . M . D . XXX :
- collector's mark: verso, brown ink: L. Krones 1829 [Ludwig Krones (Lugt 1593)]
- collector's mark: verso, black ink: CMeister 1848 . [Karl August (Carl) Meister (Lugt 1808)]
- inscription: in design, at right edge, centered: AG [monogram]
- inscription: verso, graphite and red chalk, apparently in the same hand: 1886 [graphite, above:] 1886 [red chalk, struck through in graphite]
- inscription: verso, graphite and brown ink: 39 44 [in brown ink, struck through in brown ink, with graphite lines below and to each side of 44 and the graphite inscription below:] AuctiW[?]
- inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: Henr. Aldegrever / son Portrait / Bartsch [illeg.] / N. 44 / origl / petz No44.[long illeg. inscr.]oi / g. / [illeg., underlined] / copi [underlined] / Cl / 916
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 21
- 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
- i/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- New Hollstein 188, Bartsch 188
- 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
- G21
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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