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Coat of Arms of Albrecht Dürer

Coat of Arms of Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer  (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date: 1523
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: sheet: 13 13/16 x 10 1/4 in. (35.1 x 26.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952
Accession Number: 52.581.1

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"Men Treading Grapes", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Date: dated A.H. 621/ A.D. 1224
Accession Number: 56.20

Black Cañon, From Camp 8, Looking Above

Black Cañon, From Camp 8, Looking Above

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840–1882)

Date: 1871
Accession Number: 1986.1054.19

Ritual Figure

Ritual Figure

Date: 380–246 B.C.
Accession Number: 2003.154

Men Shoveling Chairs (Scupstoel)

Men Shoveling Chairs (Scupstoel)

Circle of Rogier van der Weyden, possibly Vranke van der Stockt (Netherlandish, ca. 1420-1495)

Date: 1444–50
Accession Number: 1975.1.848

Nude Before a Mirror

Nude Before a Mirror

Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski) (French, Paris 1908–2001 Rossinière)

Date: 1955
Accession Number: 1975.1.155

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