Lamentation
Lamentation

Currently not on view

Lamentation,

ca. 1509–11

Albrecht Dürer, 1471–1528; born and died Nuremberg, Germany
x1958-30

Information

Title
Lamentation
Dates

ca. 1509–11

Maker
Albrecht Dürer
Medium

Woodcut

Dimensions

block: 12.8 × 9.8 cm (5 1/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
sheet: 13 × 10 cm (5 1/8 × 3 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John P. Poe, Class of 1922, in memory of Albert M. Friend, Jr., Class of 1915

Object Number
x1958-30
Place Made

Europe, Germany, Nuremburg

Inscription

Monogram in block, lower center: AD

Marks/Labels/Seals

Watermark: [high crown]

Reference Numbers
Bartsch 43; Dodgson 87; Hollstein 152; Meder 152; Schoch 213
Culture
European, German
Type
prints, woodcuts
Materials
printing ink
Techniques
woodcut (process)
Subject
passion, figures (representations), deaths, saints, jars, men, Christ, women, Mary

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