Death of Cleopatra, 1547

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper [counterproof]

Dimensions

sheet (irregular hexagon): 11.2 x 15.1 cm (4 7/16 x 5 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Schwarz 1917, 5, ii/ii [counterproof]

Accession Number

2008.48.2

Artists / Makers

Augustin Hirschvogel (artist) German, 1503 - 1553

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in image: AH 1547 (backwards); by later hand, lower left center verso in graphite: 49/27

Provenance

(Schab). (Colnaghi?). (sale, Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 2 December 1949, part of no. 166). Richard Zinser; his estate; (N. G. Stogdon, Somerset); purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Stogdon, N.G.
Zinser, Richard H.

Bibliography

1917: Schwarz 1917, 5, ii/ii [counterproof]

2007: N. G. Stogdon. German Landsacapes of the 16th Century. Somerset, 2007: no. 17.