The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket

Lucas van Leyden, Netherlandish, about 1494 - 1533

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1525

Engraving on laid paper

Plate: 9 5/8 × 7 3/8 in. (24.4 × 18.7 cm)

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

PR.973.457

Geography

Place Made: Netherlands, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower left: L / 1525

Course History

ARTH 43, Northern Renaissance Art, Jane Carroll, Winter 2012

ITAL 22, Humanism and Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2014

Exhibition History

Art 1, Barrows Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 11, 1975-January 11, 1976.

Durer and Friends, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 30, 1979-January 6, 1980.

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.

Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.

The Renaissance: Forms, Reforms, and Revolutions, Barrows-Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 9-September 3, 1982.

Provenance

David Tunick, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1973.

Catalogue Raisonne

Hollstein X.155.136; Jacobowitz 88

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