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The Head of John the Baptist Brought to Herodias
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
1511
Medium/Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 19.1 x 12.9 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number61.1356
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (relief) 126; Meder 232 b
Marks
Verso, lower left, stamped in brown ink -- mark of Vinzent Mayer (Lugt 2525)
InscriptionsVerso, upper center, in pen and brown ink: 27
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1961, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession date: December 20, 1961)