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Herodias with the Head of John the Baptist, 1528. Engraving in black on ivory laid paper.
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper · Plate: 8 × 5.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Herodias with the Head of John the Baptist
- Artist
- Heinrich Aldegrever German, 1502-c.1560
- Date
- 1528
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 8 × 5.5 cm (3 3/16 × 2 3/16 in.); Sheet: 8.6 × 6.2 cm (3 7/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1502–1561
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.