About the Artwork
The Dream of the Doctor
between 1498 and 1499
Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
German
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 7 3/8 × 4 3/4 inches (18.7 × 12.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Hal H. Smith
45.231
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower center: [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, in brown ink, verso: 1835. X A. D. Inscribed, in pencil, verso: E. G. K
Marks, in pencil, verso: [numeric notations] (Old card identifies these as Ex. Coll: Donnadieu (see Lugt) and E. G. Kennedy (Lugt 858))
Provenance
A. Donnadieu
E. G. Kennedy. Hal H. Smith
1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 28.
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Albrecht Dürer, The Dream of the Doctor, between 1498 and 1499, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Hal H. Smith, 45.231.
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