Heilige Christoffel, Heinrich Aldegrever, after Albrecht Dürer, 1527

Title(s)

Heilige Christoffel

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-2678

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein German (Aldegrever) 61
• The Illustrated Bartsch 61
• The Illustrated Bartsch 52
  Remark: kopie

Inscriptions / marks

• date

Description

Christoffel wadend door de rivier, het Christuskind op zijn rug. Op de oever de kluizenaar met een fakkel.

Artist

• print maker: Heinrich Aldegrever (mentioned on object)
• after print by: Albrecht Dürer

Place

Germany

Dating

1527

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 75 mm × width 53 mm

What

• St. Christopher, with the infant Christ on his shoulders, wading through the water and carrying his staff (palm-tree); sometimes a hermit stands on the further bank beside a chapel, a lantern in his hand

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Heinrich Aldegrever, p. 73, cat.nr. 61