The Dance of Death, folio CCLXI recto, from the Nuremberg Chronicle
Michael Wolgemut, German, 1434 - 1519
Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, German, about 1458 - 1494
Anton Koberger, German, about 1445 - 1513
1493
Hand colored woodcut on wove paper
Image: 8 7/8 × 7 9/16 in. (22.5 × 19.2 cm)
Sheet: 18 1/2 × 12 13/16 in. (47 × 32.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P
PR.948.56.1
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed text in German on both sides. Iron ink handwritten inscription in margin and bottom 6" margin of the sheet, initialed and dated at the bottom: E. G.[B.?] M. 1610.
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Winter 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
History 3.01, Europe in the Age of Wonder, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin and Walter Simons, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Art I, Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 21, 1975-January 11, 1976.
Death and Dying: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 55, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-March 26, 1995.
German Expressionist Prints, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4-May 25, 1975.
Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.
The Nude, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 27-November 3, 1974.
Provenance
Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1948.
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