Philip Melanchton (1497 - 1560)
Georg Pencz, German, about 1500 - 1550
1530
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 3 3/8 × 2 5/8 in. (8.6 × 6.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P
PR.948.23
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper right: 15. I.B. 30; inscribed, in plate, lower center: SI DEVS PRO NOBIS / QVIS CONTRA NOS / P.M.; verso: two collection marks: V.M. and A.P.(?)
Course History
GERM 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1987.
The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 21-November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25-March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24-August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992-January 3, 1993, naturalia no. n177.
Provenance
Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1948.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch VII: 10(303)
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