Erasmus of Rotterdam
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
1526
Engraving on laid paper
Probably Meder c
Sheet: 9 9/16 × 7 7/16 in. (24.3 × 18.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.131
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper left: [Latin text] IMAGO. ERASMI. ROTERODA / MI. AB. ALBERTO. DVRERO. AD / VIVAM. EFFIGIEM. DELINIATA. / [Greek text] ???. KPEITTO. TA. SYGGPAM / MATA. ?EI?EI [first E in superscript]; signed and dated, in plate, upper left: MDXXVI / AD [artist's monogram]; [Translated Latin text: The portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, drawn by Albrecht Dürer from the living image] [Translated Greek text:His writings will depict him even better]
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
ARTH 43, Northern Renaissance Art, Jane Carroll, Winter 2012
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Mary Coffey, Joy Kenseth, Winter 2019
OSHER, European Manuscript and Print Culture (1300-1600), Daniel Abosso, Fall 2019
OSHER, European Manuscript and Print Culture (1300-1600), Daniel Abosso, Fall 2021
GERM 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 38.
Durer and Friends, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 30, 1979-January 6, 1980.
Durer and Related Works, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1971.
Introduction to the History of Art: Works from the 15th to the 18th Centuries, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 24, 1994-February 5, 1995.
Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.
Teaching the History of Western Art 1500-Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 27-March 11, 2001.
The Renaissance: Forms, Reforms, and Revolutions, Barrows-Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 9-September 3, 1982.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 38.
Provenance
Collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch (1803), Vol. VII: 114.107; Meder (1932): 105; Strauss (1973): 105
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