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Adoration of the Shepherds,
ca. 1509–11
Albrecht Dürer, 1471–1528; born and died Nuremberg, Germany; active Venice, Italy, and Nuremburg
x1958-7
Information
Title
Adoration of the Shepherds
Dates
ca. 1509–11
Maker
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
block: 12.7 × 9.9 cm (5 × 3 7/8 in.)
sheet: 13 × 10.2 cm (5 1/8 × 4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of John P. Poe, Class of 1922, in memory of Albert M. Friend, Jr., Class of 1915
Object Number
x1958-7
Place Made
Europe, Germany, Nuremburg
Inscription
Monogram in block, lower right: AD [backwards D]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Watermark: [high crown]
Reference Numbers
Bartsch 20; Dodgson 64; Hollstein 129; Meder 131; Schoch 190
Materials
Techniques
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Adam vom Bartsch, "Volume 7," Le peintre graveur ... (Vienne: J. V. Degen, 1803-05).
, nos. 16–52, pp. 119–122 - Arthur Mayger Hind, Albrecht Dürer: his engravings and woodcuts (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911)., p. 14
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Campbell Dodgson, Albrecht Dürer (London: Medici Society, 1926).
, nos. 60–96 - Joseph Meder, Dürer-Katalog, ein handbuch über Albrecht Dürers stiche, radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren zustände, ausgaben und wasserzeichen (Vienna: Gilhofer & Rauschburg, 1932)., nos. 125–161
- Erwin Panofsky, Albrecht Dürer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945).
- "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 18, no. 1 (1959): p. 40-42., p. 40
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F.W.H. Hollstein, “Dürer,” German engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700 (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1962).
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Rainer Schoch, Matthias Mende, and Anna Scherbaum, Albrecht Dürer: das druckgraphische Werk (München: Prestel, 2001).
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