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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G6616.1
People
Unidentified Artist
After Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Portfolio of the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I. Part One
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Schutzdecke der Ehrenpforte Maxillians I.
Series/Book Title: Jahrbuch der Sammlungen der Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, v. 3
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1885-1886
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/29375

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Photolithograph printed in black ink on off-white modern laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
cover and pages: 57.5 × 73.3 cm (22 5/8 × 28 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: front cover, title page, and reporduction of the lower half of the entire arch , purple stamp only. The actual side reproductions of the individual blocks of the arch have added graphite accessio numbers 6616 / 36/1 through 6616 36/20:
    GRAY COLLECTION, / 1090 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836). See remarks for added graphite numbering.]
  • label: on the inner side of the front cover, a library bookplate, an elaborate armorial cartouche bearing inscriptions in graphite and ink: [graphite] 10 / J11 / v 3 / supp / [black ink] Gray Collection: / {brown ink] Purchased / July / 1886
  • inscription: inner front cover, graphite: Acc. No. 6616 / 1-20 [within an oval borderline]
  • inscription:

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
edition iv, printed by Adolf Holzhausen, adapted from edition III, 1799, printed by Adam Bartsch

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G6616.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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