Slapend kind liggend op een schedel, Barthel Beham, 1525

Title(s)

Slapend kind liggend op een schedel

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-4203

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 31
• Pauli (Barthel Beham) 37
• Hollstein German 37

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Barthel Beham
• after own design by: Barthel Beham

Place

Neurenberg

Dating

1525

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 33 mm × width 47 mm

What

• skull as symbol of 'Vanitas'
• child
• sleeping; unconsciousness

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Barthel Beham, Gustav Pauli, p. 31, cat.nr. 37