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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R814NA
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
The Small Horse
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1505
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304470

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 16.3 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: AD
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: AH [linked] [Alfred Hubert (Lugt 130)]
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite: JOHN WITT RANDALL COLL. / HARVARD COLLEGE / 814 N. A.
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 96 alle[illeg.]t[illeg.] / 193 [in circle] / a45861 [underlined] / art/t30 / [illeg.]No. 43
  • watermark: Meder watermark 62: bull's head

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alfred Hubert, Paris (130), Collector, auction sale, 26-29 May 1909, Danlos, 1909.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Meder a
Standard Reference Number
Bartsch 96, Meder 93, Strauss 44

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, John Witt Randall Fund
Object Number
R814NA
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Emily J. Peters, ed., The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650, exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI, 2009), cat. no. 12 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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