The Rejection of Joachim's Offering, from The Life of the Virgin
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
about 1504; published 1511
Woodcut on laid paper
1511 Latin edition
Sheet: 11 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (29.9 × 21 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Philip Hofer
PR.939.3.2
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in block, lower center: AD [artist's monogram]; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, center left: c / Leith / Oct.r 11 / 1847; Latin text on reverse; Watermark, center left: [Flower with Triangle; M.127]
Exhibition History
Prints from the Hood Museum Collection, inaugural exhibition, Friends Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1, 1985-January 12, 1986.
Provenance
Collected by Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1939.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch (1803), Vol. VII: 131.77; Meder (1932): 189
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