G1111: Knight, Death, and the Devil

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G1111

People

Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)

Title

Knight, Death, and the Devil

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1513

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299922

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

Overall: 25 x 19.1 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: on a shaded tablet at lower left, engraved artist's monogram and date printed in black ink: S1513 / AD
• inscription: verso, graphite: de Bammeville's coll. No. 367. / 17 fr. Card. Fesch's coll. / £. [illeg.] 32.--
• collector's mark: verso, graphite: E. H. Greenleaf [Edward Hale Greenleaf (Lugt 5207)]
• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written within in brown ink: GRAY COLLECTION, / 1111 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

de Bammeville. Cardinal Fesch. Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

Meder a or b/g

Standard Reference Number

Bartsch 98, Meder 74, Strauss 71

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

Object Number

G1111

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Marjorie B. Cohn and Harvard University Art Museums/ Harvard University Press, Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America (Cambridge, MA, 1986), p. 234, fig. 25
• Judith A. Stanford, Responding to Literature, Mayfield Publishing Company (Mountain View, CA, 1996), n.p. (in color insert between pp.644 and 645)
• Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Exhibition History

• Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986
• A Colloquium in the Visual Arts, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2022 - 12/30/2022

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