Virgin Standing on New Moon
Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500 - 1550
1520
Engraving on paper
Sheet: 3 5/16 × 2 3/8 in. (8.4 × 6.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.713.2
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Initialled and dated, in plate, lower left: 1520 / HSB [artist's monogram]; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, lower center: B.17 / [indistinct] / 208; Collector's mark, stamped, in black ink, upper left: PS [flower on Mary's right arm] [Lugt 2108]
Course History
HIST 96.39, Saints and Material Devotion, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021
Provenance
Collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York; given to present collection, in 1954, in memory of her son, Everett De Witt Egginton (1900-1925), Class of 1921.
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