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ClassificationsWorks of Art on Paper
Artist (German, 1471 - 1528)

The Harrowing of Hell

AAT Object Form/FunctionWoodcuts (prints)
Date1510, printed ca. 1650
MediumWoodcut
Credit LineGift of William Knight Zewadski
Dimensions15 1/2 x 11 in. (39.4 x 28 cm)
Object number1976.019
Exhibition HistoryEmory University Art History Department, Winter Quarter, January 10-26, 1977
A Preview of the Collections, Schatten Gallery, February 15 - April 4, 1982
Woodcuts by Albrecht Durer: An Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, April 8 - June 7, 1986
Style and Technique: Prints from the Collection of the Carlos Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 18 - May 4, 1997
Rival Cuts: Process and Technique in Prints by Tom Hück and Albrecht Dürer, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 16 - June 9, 2019
Published ReferencesParke-Bernet Galleries, Old Master Drawings (April 11, 1968), 13, number 52.
A Preview of the Collections (Atlanta: Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1982), 14.
John Howett, Woodcuts by Albrecht Durer (Atlanta: Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1986), 34.
ProvenanceEx coll. William Knight Zewadski, United States, from at least 1969, possibly purchased from Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, April 11, 1968, lot 52. Ex coll. Emory University Art History Department, gift of Zewadski, 1976. Transferred to Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, ca. 1981.
Status
Not on view
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© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Albrecht Dürer
1511 edition
© Bruce M. White, 2016.
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1498
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Albrecht Dürer
ca. 1504
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1497
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Albrecht Dürer
ca. 1504
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Albrecht Dürer
ca. 1503-1504
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Albrecht Dürer
1511 edition