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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1884
People
Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemian (Prague 1607 - 1677 London)
After Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Albrecht Dürer the Elder
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1644
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/273890

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 22.5 × 16.3 cm (8 7/8 × 6 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, bottom margin: NOBİLİ ET MAGNİFİCO D.no, DNŌ; IOHANNİ MAXİMİLİANO / ZUM JVNGEN, Nobilissimæ & Florentissimæ Reipublicæ Francofurtensis ad Mœnum Consuli / Seniori etc. Dnō; & Patrono suo maximo; Gratitudinis ergo, (has duas) Patris & Filij Durerum Effi= / =gies, ab Alberto Iuniore olim depictas, & nunc a Wenceslao Hollar Bohémo Aqua forti æri in= / =sculptas, Henricus van der Borcht Iunior humillimæ offert et dedicat, Anno 1644.
  • collector's mark: verso, brown ink: J:B_ [John Barnard (Lugt 1419)]
  • collector's mark: verso, black stamp: Dr. / WA[linked] / Pr. [within a circular double borderline; Wilhelm August Ackermann (Lugt 791)]
  • inscription: in plate, bottom corners: Albertus Durerus pinxit, / W: Hollar fecit.
  • inscription: in plate, upper edge of image area: 1497 ˑ ALBRECHT THVRERˑ DERˑ ELTERˑ VIIDˑ ALTˑ 70 JOR
  • collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with graphite numbering within: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 1884
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 9 / Cl. VIII. 9. / Parth. 1389 / Ackm 382

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Barnard.
W. Ackermann.
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
New Hollstein 692, Pennington 1389

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1884
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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