Lot Welcomes the Angels (Genesis 19:1), No.1 from the series The Story of Lot
Heinrich Aldegrever, German, 1502 - about 1560
1555
Engraving on paper
Plate: 4 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (11.5 × 8.1 cm)
Sheet: 4 5/8 × 3 5/16 in. (11.8 × 8.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift in memory of Mrs. Harvey Fisk by her children
PR.974.382
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in plate, lower left: 1555 / AG [artist's monogram: A over G]
Exhibition History
Durer and Friends, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 30, 1979-January 6, 1980.
Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.
Provenance
Elizabeth Richmond Fisk (1885-1966) [Mrs. Harvey Edward Fisk], Woodstock, Vermont; to her children, Elizabeth Fisk Tyler (1912-1978), Margaretta Fisk Paine (1915-1952); Ursula Fisk Clough (1917-1989), and Anne Fisk Howe (1921-2001), 1966; given to present collection, 1974.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 16:14; Hollstein I:12:14; New Hollstein 36:14
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