The Tower of Babel, from the book Biblicae Historiae

Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500 - 1550

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about 1540

Woodcut on laid paper

Overall: 2 1/8 × 2 13/16 in. (5.4 × 7.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund

PR.973.287

Publisher

Christian Engenolff, Frankfurt

Geography

Place Made: Germany, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Provenance

Lili Harleman Kohler (wife of Dartmouth Professor Wolfgang Kohler, 1887-1967), Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1973.

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