Pyramus and Thisbe, between 1515 and 1518

  • Albrecht Altdorfer, German, 1480-1538

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Image: 2 3/8 × 1 5/8 inches (6 × 4.1 cm) Sheet: 2 1/2 × 1 3/4 inches (6.4 × 4.4 cm)

Bequest of Hal H. Smith

45.172

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in plate, lower right edge: [artist's monogram]

Partial stamp, in blue, verso: [illegible] Stamp, in black, verso: Lawson Thompson (Lugt 1770)

Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [numeric notations]

Lawson Thompson, Hitchin (Hertfordshire, England). Hal H. Smith

1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Winzinger, F. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik. Munich, 1963, no. 132.

Albrecht Altdorfer, Pyramus and Thisbe, between 1515 and 1518, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Hal H. Smith, 45.172.