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Identification and Creation

Object Number
4.1986
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
The Sudarium Held by One Angel
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1516
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/238063

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 18.2 × 13 cm (7 3/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: monogram "AD" and date
  • inscription: on plate, in reserve at right edge: 1516 / AD [monogram]
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with graphite numbering within; stamped again very faintly: MC [monogram] / 82
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: No 98
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in various hands: P2806 / GWay / 80-[illeg.]JLXW [inverted U with a V above]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Meder a, Schoch i or ii
Standard Reference Number
Bartsch 26, Schoch 82, Meder 27, Strauss 83

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan in honor of Jakob Rosenberg
Object Number
4.1986
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Susan Dackerman, "Dürer's etchings: printed drawings?", exh. cat., ed. Michael Cole, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, Penn., 2006), repr. as fig. 30 [verso] and fig. 31 on p. 42
  • Elina Gertsman, Multiple Impressions: Christ in the Winepress and the Semiotics of the Printed Image, Art History (April 2013), 36, no. 2, pp. 310-337, p. 327, pl. 17

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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