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Peasant Couple Dancing

Engraving
1514 (engraved)
Artist/Maker
Durer (artist)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (engraved)

Engraving


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Engraving
TitlePeasant Couple Dancing (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving print on paper
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
A peasant couple dancing by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528); engraving
Physical description
Engraving
Dimensions
  • Plate height: 11.7cm
  • Plate width: 7.3cm
Style
Northern Renaissance
Marks and inscriptions
'1514 / AD' (Date and artist's monogram inscribed in plate at top middle)
Subjects depicted
Spouses
Peasants
Dancing
Associated object
E.4616-1910 (Version)
Bibliographic references
  • Strauss, Walter L., ed. The Illustrated Bartsch 10 (Commentary): Sixteenth Century German Artists, Albrecht Dürer. New York: Abaris Books, 1980. 328 p., ill. ISBN 089835000X. No.90, pp.200-202.
  • Hollstein, F.W.H. German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, c.1400-1700. Volume VII. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1954-. No.88.
  • Rowlands, J.K. The Graphic Work of Albrecht Dürer: An Exhibition of his Prints and Drawings in Commemoration of the Quincentenary of his Birth. London: British Museum, 1971. Exhibition catalogue. No.195.
  • Schoch, R., M. Mende and A. Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer. Das Druckgraphische Werk. Band I: Kupferstiche, Eisenradierungen und Kaltnadelblätter. Munich, London, New York, 2001. No.77.
  • Bartrum, Guilia, ed. Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy - The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist / with contributions by Günter Grass, Joseph L. Koerner and Ute Kuhlemann. London: The British Museum Press, 2002. 320 p., ill. ISBN 0714126330. No.136, p.193.
Other number
B.90 - Le Peintre-Graveur
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.645-1940

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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