Portrait of Bernard Knipperdolling, A Chief of the Anabaptists of Münster
date: label: Date
content: 1536
name: label: Print Maker
content: Heinrich Aldegrever, German, 1502 - ca. 1561
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Half-length portrait, turned toward the right, the head shown in three-quarters view. His hands are visible, clasped before him, resting on the sill formed by the tablet below. At upper right, enclosed in a laurel wreath, a hand graspgin a sword. Monogram of Aldegrever over subject's shoulder, right. In margin, above, two lines: "WAERHAFTICH GEKONTERFET BERNT KNIPPERDOLLICK..." In tablet below: "IGNOTVS NVLLIS KNIPPERDOLLINGIVS... VITA FORET HINRICVS ALDEGREVER.... 1536"
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of George Campbell Cooper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1896-3-88
objectType: label: Type
content: portraits
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.7 × 22.7 cm (12 1/2 × 8 15/16 in.)