The Harrowing of Hell (Christ in Limbo), from The Engraved Passion
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
1512
Engraving on laid paper
Probably Meder b
Sheet: 4 1/2 × 2 15/16 in. (11.5 × 7.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Given in memory of Milton J. Goodfriend, M.D.
PR.986.76.1
Geography/Culture
Europe, Germany
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Dated, in plate, upper center: 1512; signed, in plate, lower right: AD [artist‘s monogram]; inscribed, in graphite, on verso: B16 Dodg. 63, 73-03-x; Collector‘s mark, reverse, stamped, in black ink, lower left: [flower?; butterfly?] Collector‘s mark, reverse, stamped, in black ink, lower right: Wagner-Museum / Würzburg. Dubl. [Lugt 2541c]
Course History
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 43, Northern Renaissance Art, Jane Carroll, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
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.
Medieval Into Renaissance, Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 21-April 24, 1994
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 39.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 39.
Provenance
David R. Godine, Boston, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1986.Johann Martin von Wagner, University of Wurzburg (duplicate) [Lugt 2541c]; Carol and James Goodfriend; given to present collection, 1986.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch (1803), Vol. VII: 34.16; Meder (1932): 16; Strauss (1972): 66
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