PrintsGerman16th century

Coat-of-Arms with a Skull

1503

Artists

Albrecht DürerArtist

Classification

Prints

Technique

Engraving

Medium

Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened

Culture

German

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

sheet: 22 × 15.5 cm (8 11/16 × 6 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Pierre Mariette. Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

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