The Death of the Virgin
Martin Schongauer, German, 1450 - 1491
about 1470-1475
Engraving on laid paper
Plate: 10 1/8 × 6 3/4 in. (25.7 × 17.1 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 6 5/8 in. (25.5 × 16.9 cm)
Frame: 16 15/16 × 13 3/4 in. (43.1 × 34.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade
PR.950.21.40
Geography/Culture
Europe, Germany
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: M + S
Course History
OSHER, European Manuscript and Print Culture (1300-1600), Daniel Abosso, Fall 2019
ARTH 15.1, Gothic Art, Jane Carroll, Spring 2019
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 43, Northern Renaissance Art, Jane Carroll, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
Professor McGrath, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 7-June 1982.
Prints from the Hood Museum Collection, inaugural exhibition, Friends Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1985-January 12, 1986.
Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.
Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1988.
Medieval Into Renaissance, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 21-April 24, 1994
Late Medieval and Renaissance Prints, Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8-December 15, 1974.
Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1996.
Durer and Related Works, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1971.
Durer and Friends, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 30, 1979-January 6, 1980.
Art I, South Lobby, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November-December 1973.
Art I, Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 21, 1975-January 11, 1976.
Art 46 Northern Baroque, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March-April 23, 1978.
Art 39, South Lobby, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 11-18, 1974.
15th and 16th Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 14-December 4, 1977.
1500, Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November-December 1972.
Provenance
Alfred Byers Wade (1874-1949) Collection; to his wife, Helena Mein Wade (1878-1966), New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949; given to present collection, 1950.
Catalogue Raisonne
Lehrs 16; Bartsch 33
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