2021.243: Adam and Eve
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2021.243
- People
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Sebald Beham, German (Nuremberg 1500 - 1550 Frankfurt am Main)
After Barthel Beham, German (Nuremberg 1502 - 1540)
- Title
- Adam and Eve
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1543
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/370216
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3620, University Study Gallery
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 8.6 × 5.6 cm (3 3/8 × 2 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, top: 6 [partially covered by old mount]
- inscription: verso, top, graphite: Belle ep du 1er etat
- collector's mark: verso, lower left, black stamp: oval with three stars, surrounded by CH. PROTECTOR MEUS (Lugt 567, mark of Arenberg family)
- inscription: verso, right: 6 [?] e
- inscription: upper left, in place: 1543 / HSB
- inscription: verso, left, graphite: 28
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Arenberg family (Lugt 567). [R. M. Light & Co, Inc., Boston, New York, and Scottsdale], sold; to Mariot F. Solomon (Mrs. Hugh Matthews), Cambridge, 1966, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- ii/v
- Standard Reference Number
- Pauli 7
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
- Accession Year
- 2021
- Object Number
- 2021.243
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Gustave Pauli, Hans Sebald Beham: Ein kritisches Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche, Radirungen und Holzschnitte, Heitz & Mündel (Strasburg, 1901), p. 23
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/25/2022 - 02/02/2023
- The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/24/2025 - 08/17/2025
Verification Level
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