PrintsGerman17th-18th century

Herodias' Daughter Receives from the Executioner the Head of Saint John the Baptist

17th-18th century

Artists

Anton Joseph von PrennerArtist

Christoph AmbergerArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Etching

Culture

German

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Provenance

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

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