About the Artwork
Dido Killing Herself
between 1520 and 1530
Albrecht Altdorfer
1480-1538
German
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 2 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (6.4 × 3.8 cm) Plate: 6 × 9 inches (15.2 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 12 1/4 × 17 1/8 inches (31.1 × 43.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Hal H. Smith
45.171
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower right of image: [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, in plate, lower right corner: DIDO
Stamp, in black, verso: Lawson Thompson (Lugt 1770)
Provenance
Lawson Thompson, Hitchin (Hertfordshire, England). Hal H. Smith
1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Winzinger, F. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik. Munich, 1963, no. 159.
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Albrecht Altdorfer, Dido Killing Herself, between 1520 and 1530, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Hal H. Smith, 45.171.
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