Currently not on view
The Engraved Passion,
1507–12
Albrecht Dürer, 1471–1528; born and died Nuremberg, Germany; active Venice, Italy, and Nuremburg
x1934-369
More About This Object
Information
Title
The Engraved Passion
Dates
1507–12
Maker
Medium
Engravings bound with manuscript leaves
Dimensions
sheet (each): 20.5 x 14.3 cm. (8 1/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
book: 21 x 14.6 cm. (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan, Class of 1888
Object Number
x1934-369
Place Made
Europe, Germany, Nuremburg
Inscription
Each recto leaf numbered in ink, upper right corner
Marks/Labels/Seals
Coat of arms of Frederick the Wise of Saxony stamped on the front and back of its original leather binding
Watermarks on text pages: 3-4, 9-10, 13-14, 15-16, 17
Reference Numbers
Bartsch 3-17; Meder 3-18
Type
Materials
Techniques
Subject
Sold to Bernard Alfred Quaritch, London bookseller and print dealer (1871-1913) at t auction, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 7 May 1908; lot 37; purchased from Quaritch by Junius Spencer Morgan.
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Adam vom Bartsch, "Volume 7," Le peintre graveur ... (Vienne: J. V. Degen, 1803-05).
, nos. 3–17, pp. 33–39 -
C. G. Boerner. Katalog einer gewählten Sammlung von Kupferstichen, Radierungen, Holzschnitten alter Meister aus schlesischem und anderem Privatbesitz, Auktion 91. 7 May 1908, Leipzig.
, p. 8 - Joseph Meder, Dürer-Katalog, ein handbuch über Albrecht Dürers stiche, radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren zustände, ausgaben und wasserzeichen (Vienna: Gilhofer & Rauschburg, 1932)., no. 3–18, p. 70 (illus.)
- Erwin Panofsky, Albrecht Dürer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945)., no. 1610
- Barbara T. Ross, "The Prints and Drawings Collection: The Early Years," in "An Art Museum for Princeton: The Early Years", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 55, no. 1/2 (1996): 135–155., p. 137, fig. 2
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 263 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 279
