G1105: Turkish Family

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G1105

People

Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)

Title

Turkish Family

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1496

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Germany

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/273683

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Engraving on cream antique laid paper

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 10.9 x 7.5 cm (4 5/16 x 2 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• monogram: engraved in plate, lower center: AD
• inscription: verso, brown ink: K: N72.[Lugt 1640a, not identified]
• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written within in brown ink:
  GRAY COLLECTION, / 1105 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]
• inscription: verso, graphite: L. 5. 10
• inscription: verso, graphite: t b /

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/d

Standard Reference Number

Bartsch 85, Meder 80, Strauss 14

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Object Number

G1105

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/18/2015 - 09/09/2015

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