Hieronymus Hopfer

1505/1506 – after 1550
Germany

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ABDUCTION ON THE UNICORN

Top left: a monogram and the artist's emblem: JH

Bottom right: a late serial number,

56

Etching

288×213 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

Watermark:
is unclear because the sheet is mounted on dense paper

Provenance:

State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-2853

Comments:

a mirror reflection of Albrecht Dürer's etching, without Dürer's monogram