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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M5467
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Saint Jerome Extracting a Thorn From the Lion's Foot
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1492
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/254892

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcut printed in black ink on beige antique laid(?) paper
Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
block: 19.4 × 13.8 cm (7 5/8 × 5 7/16 in.)
sheet: 28.7 × 19 cm (11 5/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription:
  • inscription: verso, typographic inscription printed in red in the shape of an inverted triangle: Sancti: ac beatissimi hieronymi...queat.
  • drawing: verso, brown kin: [an armorial design with an inverted V formed by two borderlines covering the entire shiled, a design that looks like a sleigh bell in the triangle formed by the legs of the V, and in the space at the upper right outside of the V a nine-pointed star.
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite: THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 5469 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Meder 227

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
M5467
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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