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Albrecht Dürer, printmaker

Nativity, late 1400s-early 1500s

Description

Maker

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528, German, printmaker

Title

Nativity

Year

late 1400s-early 1500s

Medium

engraving

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Light weight laid paper

Dimensions

18.4 x 11.8 cm (7 3/16 x 4 5/8 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered UL in a tablet within image: "1504 AD"

Verso: collector's stamp of Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916; Lugt 1297); Metropolitan Museum of Art stamp (Lugt 1943); and "Metropolitan Duplicate" stamp (Lugt 5212).

Identification

State

Only state

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

42.222

Projects & Publications

Publications

Dürer-Katalog

Ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Helen M. Danforth

June 21 - September 8, 1985

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Nativity with the accession number of 42.222. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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