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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1112
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Knight, Death, and the Devil
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le cheval de la mort
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1513
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299956

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 24.2 x 18.7 cm (9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, on tablet, engraved artist's monogram and date printed in black ink: S1513· / AD
  • inscription: verso, graphite inscription: Ev {Evans?] Jan. 28. 1856 £ 50.
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp [faded to invisibility] with accession number written within in brown ink: GRAY COLLECTION, / 1112 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Meder a
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
G1112
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 235, fig. 26, det.
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Lilli Colton, The Art of Medicine, Annenberg Center for Health Sciences (Rancho Mirage, CA, 2002), p. 43

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2007], Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/26/2007 - 04/08/2007
  • HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2009], Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/2009 - 05/10/2009
  • HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture (Spring 2010), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2010 - 05/09/2010

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