DETAILS
- Artist
- Albrecht Altdorfer
- Date
- 1500
- Medium
- Engraving
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 1 15/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5 × 4.2 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1920
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