Death and the Bishop, from The Power of Death (Allegory of Original Sin and Death)

Heinrich Aldegrever  (German, Paderborn ca. 1502–1555/1561 Soest)

Artist:
after Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)
Date:
1541
Medium:
Engraving
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/8 × 2 1/16 in. (7.9 × 5.2 cm)
Classification:
Prints
Credit Line:
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962
Accession Number:
62.635.506a
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: AG [monogram of the artist: A over G]

    Inscription: across bottom: PERCVTIAM PASTOREM & DISPERGENTVR / OVES / XXVI MAR XIIII; at top center: 1541 / AG

  • Provenance

    Donor: Harry G. Friedman

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch VIII.406.141; New Hollstein 121.141; Hollstein I.66.141

  • References

    The Illustrated Bartsch. edited by Walter L. Strauss, New York, 1980, cat. no. XVI 201.141.



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