The Lamentation, from The Small Passion
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
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
Research Area
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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