Identification title(s): portrait of erasmus. Imago erasmi roterodami ab alberto durero ad vivam effigiem deliniata (title on object). Object type: print object number: rp-p-ob-1281. Catalog reference: bartsch 107. Meder 105-a-d. Inscriptions / marks: monogram, bottom center on cartouche, engraved: 'ad' date, center on cartouche, engraved: 'mdxxvi' title, above cartouche, engraved: 'imago erasmi. . '. Description: portrait of erasmus, writing, standing at a lectern near a table on which stands a vase of flowers. Behind the table there is a tablet on the wall with latin text. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: albrecht dürer (mentioned on object). Place of manufacture: nuremberg. Date: 1526. Physical features: engraving. Material: paper technique: engraving (printing process). Dimensions: sheet: h 249 mm × w 193 mm explanation this print may have originally had the inventory number rp-p-1877-a-24 (see note there). Klinkert, c. Subject: what: historical person (erasmus, desiderius) - historical person (erasmus, desiderius) depicted alonehandwriting, writing as activity aspects of science in general (+ portrait of scholar, scientist), ink-wellpen-knifeseal, stampbookflowers in a vase. Who: desiderius erasmus. Documentation. Between ad and allegory: marketing portraits of gerard reve, hinde haest, p. 18, image 12. The history of the netherlands in 100 objects, gijs van der ham, p. 77 - 81, cat. No. 12. Autoportraits d'érasme: recueils épistolaires et représentations figurées = self-portraits of erasmus: collections of letters and pictorial representations = selfportraits of erasmus: epistolary anthologies and figurative representations, alexandre vanautgaerden. Erasmus in pictures, marjolijn bol, peter van der coelen, p. 77, cat. No. 4. Albrecht dürer: das druckgraphicische werk, part 1, cat. No. 102. D. Acquisition and rights: copyright: public domain. Date: 1526.
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