Adam and Eve, 16th century

  • Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528
  • Lambert Hopfer, German

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 6 3/4 × 5 3/8 inches (17.1 × 13.7 cm) Sheet: 7 × 5 5/8 inches (17.8 × 14.3 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S616

Signed in plate, lower right: L H

Stamp in blue, verso: K. F. F. von Nagler (Lugt 2529) Stamps in black and brown, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606 and 2922) Scripps stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date, 1890, added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed in plate, lower right: 188

K. F. F. von Nagler

Kupferstichkabinett der Staalichen Museen (Berlin, Germany). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lambert Hopfer; after Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 16th century, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S616.