G1130: Nativity, with Adoration of the Shepherds
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G1130
- People
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Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
- Title
- Nativity, with Adoration of the Shepherds
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Life of the Virgin
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1503
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/273931
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodcut printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- block: 29.8 × 21 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: Meder 62
- inscription: on stone block in center foreground, woodcut artist's monogram printed in black ink: AD
- drawing: verso, graphite: [tracing on the watermark, ox head (Meder 82)]
- inscription: verso, graphite: B. 85 1 e
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in graphite: GRAY COLLECTION, / 1130 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- proof before text, Meder a
- Standard Reference Number
- Bartsch 85, Meder 197
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G1130
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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