Ornament for Dagger Sheath

c. 1515

Daniel Hopfer

Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536

Daniel Hopfer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron) with open biting

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.6 x 9 cm (5 3/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 23.3 x 15.6 cm (9 3/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1979.44.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 99, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2012

  • Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 90, repro. fig. 28.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, 99, i/ii.

2009

  • Metzger, Christof. Daniel Hopfer: ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance : Eisenradierungen, Holzschnitte, Zeichnungen, Waffenätzungen. München: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009, no. 137, i/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q65567406


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