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Haman and his seven sons are hanged 1493
Albrecht Dürer
* 1471 in Nürnberg † 1528 in Nürnberg
Woodcut. Size of woodcut plate: 10.7 x 10.7 cm. Size of the sheet: 25 x 18.5 cm.
From: Geoffroy de La Tour-Landry, Der Ritter vom Turn (The Knight of Turn, Examples of the Fear of God and of Respectability). Michael Furter and Bergmann von Olpe, 1493.
Literature: Hollstein p. 244, 11.
Schramm 1040.
Meder p. 273,VI. and p. 14 ff.
An extremely rare work conceived during the period when Albrecht Dürer was working in Basel 1491-1493. Dürer’s authorship is confirmed by old labeling and documention of the woodblocks, preserved today at the Kunsthaus in Basel.
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