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The Dream of the Doctor

The Dream of the Doctor, between 1498 and 1499

  • Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528

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)

Bequest of Hal H. Smith

45.231

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Signed, in plate, lower center: [artist's monogram]

Marks, in pencil, verso: [numeric notations] (Old card identifies these as Ex. Coll: Donnadieu (see Lugt) and E. G. Kennedy (Lugt 858))

Inscribed, in brown ink, verso: 1835. X A. D. Inscribed, in pencil, verso: E. G. K

A. Donnadieu

E. G. Kennedy. Hal H. Smith

1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 28.

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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