Erasmus of Rotterdam

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, upper left: [Latin text] IMAGO. ERASMI. ROTERODA / MI. AB. ALBERTO. DVRERO. AD / VIVAM. EFFIGIEM. DELINIATA. / [Greek text] ???. KPEITTO. TA. SYGGPAM / MATA. ?EI?EI [first E in superscript]; signed and dated, in plate, upper left: MDXXVI / AD [artist's monogram]; [Translated Latin text: The portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, drawn by Albrecht Dürer from the living image] [Translated Greek text:His writings will depict him even better]

Course History

ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012

ARTH 43, Northern Renaissance Art, Jane Carroll, Winter 2012

ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012

ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012

ARTH 17.2, FILM 50, When Media Were New, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2014

ITAL 22, Humanism and Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2014

ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016

ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016

ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016

HIST 43.02, European Intellectual History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2022

Exhibition History

A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 37.

An Introduction of the History of Art from the Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12-March 15, 1992.

An Introduction to the History of Art: Works from the 15th to 18th Centuries, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 14, 1993-January 30, 1994.

Aspects of Human Experience: Works from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 1998-March 14, 1999.

Books in Art/Art in Books, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH16, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 4-March 9, 1997.

Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-February 12, 1990.

Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Friends and Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1988.

Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1987.

Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.

Representations of the Body in Space from the Renaissance to the Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 3-March 15, 1998.

The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 7-December 3, 2000.

Publication History

Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 37.

T. Barton Thurber, The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2000, pp. 4-6, ill. p. 5.

Marjorie Reeves, "The Uses of History In The Twenty First Century", The Historian, The Magazine of The Historical Association, No. 74, London: The Historical Association, Summer 2002, pp. 5-10, ill. p. 9.

Michael A. Mullett, "Martin Luther", London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2004, 284 pp., B&W ill. p. 129.

John V. Kulvicki, On Images: Their Structure and Content, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 258 pp., ill. p. 28.

Provenance

Boris Penrose collection; Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc., New York; [possibly Alfred Byers Wade, New Canaan, Connecticut]; Hugh Mason Wade, Cornish, New Hampshire; given to the present collection, 1987.

Catalogue Raisonne

Bartsch (1803), Vol. VII: 114.107; Meder (1932): 105; Strauss (1973): 105

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