When Adam Delved, from the Dance of Death series

Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech, 1607 - 1677
after Hans Holbein, the younger, German, 1497 - 1543

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1651

Etching on paper

Plate: 3 × 2 3/16 in. (7.6 × 5.6 cm)

Sheet: 3 3/8 × 2 1/2 in. (8.6 × 6.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl, and John S. Stahl in memory of their parents Barbara J. and David G. Stahl, Class of 1947

2014.73.86

Geography

Place Made: Czechoslovakia, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower right, in plate: WH.; inscribed, lower left, in plate: H.B.t; inscribed, bottom margin, left to right, in plate: Maledicta Terra in opere tuo, in laboribus comedes / cunctis diebus vitae tuae donet: reuertaris. & c. Gen 3; inscribed, lower left corner, in plate: 4

Course History

ANTH 64, The Evolution of Pregnancy, Zaneta Thayer, Spring 2019

Provenance

Collected by Barbara Jaffe Stahl (1930-2004) and David Gerald Stahl (1926-2013), Manchester, New Hampshire; bequeathed to their children Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl and John S. Stahl, 2013; given to present collection, 2014.

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