The Fall of Man
probably c. 1509/1510
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
block: 12.8 × 9.7 cm (5 1/16 × 3 13/16 in.)
sheet: 13.5 × 10.3 cm (5 5/16 × 4 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.3669
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 126
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Hollstein and Puppel, Schloss E sale, Berlin, May 6-9, 1929, lot no. 265); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1965
The Old Testament in Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, IN, 1965.
Bibliography
1932
Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 187.
Inscriptions
in block, bottom right, on tablet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.17; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 265
Watermarks
High crown (fragment) (Meder 20)
Wikidata ID
Q18338580