M1158: Title-Border. Figures of Justice and Geometry, with Sons Shooting Arrows at Their Father's Body
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M1158
- People
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Jost Amman, Swiss (Zurich, Switzerland 1539 - 1591 Nuremberg, Germany)
- Title
- Title-Border. Figures of Justice and Geometry, with Sons Shooting Arrows at Their Father's Body
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Portrait of Andreas Tiraquellius (on reverse of print)
Series/Book Title: Tiraquellius, A. De utroque retractu municipali et conventionali, comentarii duo. Tomus tertius. - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1574
- Culture
- Swiss
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/259411
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodcut printed in black ink on white antique laid paper discolored to tan
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
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sheet: 32.8 × 22.7 cm (12 15/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
block: 30.5 × 20.4 cm (12 × 8 1/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in block, lower left corner and lower right corner, in strapwork: I / A
- inscription: verso, graphite: Jost Amman - / Border with sons shooting at their father's body. / Mark of Sigismond Feierbend / [?]ieitz, Frankfurter u. mainzer drucker und verlegerzeichem // Amman / Portrait of Andreas Tiraquellius / Andriesen I, p. 208, no. 23.
- inscription: verso, graphite: Noll. 6R
- collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below: [Fogg Museum accession stamp (Lugt 936)] 1158
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- see New Hollstein 280.18 (2676) and on verso New Hollstein 280.4 (2127), Andriesen 23, 116
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- M1158
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/13/2020 - 07/27/2021
Verification Level
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