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Christ in Limbo
Albrecht Dürer1512/hand-colored circa 1588
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
The engraving was hand-colored by Georg Mack the Elder circa 1588 (initialed "GM" in gold). The recto border of the vellum mount is decorated with a scroll of flowers, four birds and a tortoise. The verso has a German manuscript text in brown ink and gold relating to the Entombment of Christ, and the border is decorated with a scroll of red lilies, a caterpillar, a butterfly, other insects and a duck.
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Details
- Title: Christ in Limbo
- Creator Lifespan: 1471 - 1528
- Creator Nationality: German
- Date: 1512/hand-colored circa 1588
- Technique: Engraving
- Physical Dimensions: w7.4 x h11.7 x d0.0 cm (print)
- Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Fund for the Acquisition of Prints Older than 150 Years
- Artist: Albrecht Dürer
- Type: Prints
- External Link: Harvard Art Museums
- Medium: Engraving, hand-colored with watercolor, opaque watercolor, and gold on cream antique laid paper, adhered to a decorated vellum mount; verso of mount: decorated border, with German manuscript text in brown ink and gold
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