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Designer
Konrad Eberhard
(German, 1768 – 1859)
Etcher
Eugen Eduard Schäffer
(German, 1802 – 1871)
DateApril 6, 1828
MediumEtching
DimensionsPlate: 5 × 2 1/8 in. (12.7 × 5.4 cm)
Sheet: 5 3/4 × 2 7/8 in. (14.6 × 7.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951
Object number1983.37
Not on view
DescriptionEtching by Eugen Eduard Schäffer depicting sculptor Konrad Eberhard's unrealized statue design. Eberhard intended for the etching to be distributed at the 300th anniversary celebrations commemorating the death of Albrecht Dürer on April 6, 1828. However, Eberhard lost the statue design contest to Christian Daniel Rauch (1777-1857). Rauch's statue design was erected in Nuremberg and completed in 1840.
In this etching, Albrecht Dürer stands on a plinth. He clutches the fur trim on his coat with his proper right hand (much like an earlier self-portrait) and holds his posthumous publication, The Theory of Proportions, in his left hand.
Additional Details
Alternate Titles
Untitled [statue of Dürer]
Provenance
1983: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Omar S. Pound;
c. 1945 - 1983: Omar S. Pound, by shortly after World War II from his mother Dorothy Shakespear?;
[?: Dorothy Shakespear, inheritance from her uncle, Henry Tudor Tucker;
?: Henry Tudor Tucker.] Note: There is no evidence to support the Shakespear-Tucker connection
Marsden Jasael Perry (1850-1935), from Heinrich Anton Cornill-d'Orville (1790-1875) and son, likely at May 14-15, 1900 Stuttgart auction
c. 1945 - 1983: Omar S. Pound, by shortly after World War II from his mother Dorothy Shakespear?;
[?: Dorothy Shakespear, inheritance from her uncle, Henry Tudor Tucker;
?: Henry Tudor Tucker.] Note: There is no evidence to support the Shakespear-Tucker connection
Marsden Jasael Perry (1850-1935), from Heinrich Anton Cornill-d'Orville (1790-1875) and son, likely at May 14-15, 1900 Stuttgart auction
Markings
Verso, lower left (dark blue ink stamp): "Cd'O" [for Heinrich Anton Cornill-d'Orville (1790-1875)]
Verso, lower left (purple ink stamp): "MJP" [for Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935)]
Verso, lower left (purple ink stamp): "MJP" [for Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935)]
Inscribed
Recto, lower right (in plate): "zum 6. April 1828"
Verso, upper left (pencil): "M.J. Perry Coll. (b. 1850)" [for Marsden J. Perry, 1850-1935]
Verso, center (pencil): "14"
Verso, upper left (pencil): "M.J. Perry Coll. (b. 1850)" [for Marsden J. Perry, 1850-1935]
Verso, center (pencil): "14"
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