ID: 700008585 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008585	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Adam and Eve (engraving (print); Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528); 1504; National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States); 1949.1.18;)

Note: Among the first results of Dürer's studies, which were to engage him throughout his life, was the engraving of Adam and Eve, in which he embodied all his new ideas of beauty and harmony, and which he proudly signed with his full name in Latin.

Titles:

Adam and Eve (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,N)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

engraving (print) [300041340] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: 1504

Creator Display:

Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528) [preferred,VP]

printmaker Dürer, Albrecht (German printmaker and painter, 1471-1528) [500115493]

Locations:

Current: National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, United States) [500115983] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1949.1.18

Credit Line: Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Display Materials: engraving on laid paper

	laid paper [300014184]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by production method>)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	Adam and Eve in the Garden of Paradise [901000428]
	.....((Legend of Adam and Eve, Old Testament narratives, Old Testament iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Provenance: Exhibition History 1991 Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991-1992, no. 195, repro. 1997 Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

Inscriptions: Inscription: signed and dated in plate, above Adam’s shoulder: ALBERTUS / DVRER / NORICVS / FACIEBAT / AD 1504; translation: [Albrecht Durer of Nuremberg made this in 1504]

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

............... Adam and Eve

Sources and Contributors:
Adam and Eve	........ [VP]
	........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Meder. Dürer-Katalog Meder, no. 1

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-)