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The Holy Trinity

Maker

Johann Gerhard Huck (engraver)
1759-1811

Heinrich Theodor Joseph Bislinger (engraver)
1742-1774

After
(artist)
1471-1528

(publisher)
1719-1804

(publisher)
1752-1817

Title

The Holy Trinity

Date of Production

1781

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
wove

Dimensions

Height: 31.5 cm
Width: 23.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3481.7

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Related Works

Catalogue of the Elector Palatine, Duke of Bavaria Collection (Dusseldorf)

Label Text

This etching after Dürer’s drawn study of the The Holy Trinity is one of 50 etchings after the original works within the collection of Carl Theodor, the Elector Palatine, Duke of Bavaria at Düsseldorf. God the father, wearing the papal tiara, supports Christ below the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, and accompanied by angels. Though etched by German printmakers for the Duke of Bavaria, the plates were later published by English publishers Boydell c. 1800, who tried to capitalise on the international demand for prints at this time. The French inscriptions below these etchings indicate that the publishers intended to sell this collection on the continent. The etcher has copied directly from the model without an intermediary copy, as the image is in reverse to the original.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Print Room Display - Durer Prints, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 29/10/2013-23/06/2014

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : La Sainte Trinité, par Albert Durer / 7. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : within image upper left : : 1515 / AD // (monogram)

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower margin left & recto : : T.O. //

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