The Rich Man Taken to Hell by Devils (Luke 16:19-31), No 4 from the series The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus
Heinrich Aldegrever, German, 1502 - about 1560
1554
Engraving on paper
Sheet: 3 1/8 × 4 5/16 in. (8 × 11 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Hersey Egginton in memory of her son, Everett Egginton, Class of 1921
PR.954.20.9
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper center: 4 [in cloud]; signed and dated, in plate, upper left: 1554 / AG [artist's monogram: A over G]; inscribed, in plate, lower center: DIVITEM EPVLONEM APVD INFEROS SEPVLTVM HEC TABELLA REFERT LVC 16
Exhibition History
Art I, South Lobby, Carpenter Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November-December, 1973.
Late Medieval and Renaissance Prints, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 11-December 15, 1974.
Provenance
Collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 16:47
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