The Lamentation, from The Small Passion

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528

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about 1509-1510

Woodcut on laid paper

Without text

Sheet: 5 × 3 7/8 in. (12.7 × 9.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P

PR.948.71.2

Geography

Place Made: Germany, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in block, lower center: AD [artist's monogram]; reverse, inscribed, in black ink, center: 2 S I; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, center: g. / A 6511; reverse, insribed, in graphite, lower left: NL; reverse inscribed, in brown ink, lower left: B No [o in superscript] 43 Orig [Orig in graphite]

Course History

ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012

Exhibition History

Realism and Invention in the Prints of Albrecht Durer, The Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, November 1-December 11, 1995; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, January 11-February 25, 1996.

Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.

Provenance

Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1948.

Catalogue Raisonne

Bartsch (1803), Vol. VII: 120.43; Meder (1932): 152

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