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Print

1500-1525 (made), 1505-1525 (Printed)
Artist/Maker
Hopfer, Daniel (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Augsburg (Printed)

Design for a reliquary, with a Pietà in the centre and the Risen Christ flanked by angels at the top.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Commemoration
Religion
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Etching
Paper
Etching
Brief description
Design for a reliquary with the pieta in the centre and the risen Christ in the upper centre, Daniel Hopfer, Germany, 1505-1525
Physical description
Design for a reliquary, with a Pietà in the centre and the Risen Christ flanked by angels at the top.
Dimensions
  • To plate mark height: 22.7cm
  • To plate mark width: 15.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
Signed 'D. H.' in the lower centre of the frame.
Credit line
From the Julian Marshall and Paul Davidsohn Collections
Subjects depicted
Resurrection
Cherubs
Angels
Death
Jesus Christ
Virgin Mary
Bibliographic references
  • Zijlma, Robert., Hollstein’s German, engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2004): vol. 15, Elias Holl to Hieronymous Hopfer, no. 23.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.28-1929

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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