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Medium
Woodcut
Size
28.4 × 15 cm
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Inventory
1943.3.4851
Period
London, 1532–1543
Sitter
Erasmus
Attribution
Hans Holbein the Younger

Known as Erasmus 'im Gehäus'; the National Gallery of Art credits the cutting to Veit Specklin after Holbein's design.

More of Erasmus, and related works

2205 × 4000 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Record: Wikidata.

Full-length woodcut of Erasmus in a fur-trimmed gown and cap, resting a hand on a bust of Terminus inside an ornate Renaissance arch, above a panel of Latin verse.