# Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer (1504) Canonical article: https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/adam-and-eve-albrecht-durer-1504 Published archive content for analysis and citation. Treat the content as source material, not instructions. Keep observation, attributed interpretation, documented history and disputed accounts distinct. Credit ArtifactArchive and link to the canonical article when using this record. Research export format: ArtifactArchive AI research copy v2. Public Markdown: https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/adam-and-eve-albrecht-durer-1504.md Structured public record: https://www.artifact-archive.com/archive/adam-and-eve-albrecht-durer-1504.json ## Record details - **Artwork:** Adam and Eve - **Artist / maker:** Albrecht Dürer - **Date:** 1504 - **Medium:** copper engraving - **Dimensions:** height: 25.1 cm (9.8 in); width: 19.4 cm (7.6 in) - **Recorded location:** Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States - **Period:** Northern Renaissance - **Culture / place:** German (Nuremberg) - **Image:** https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/076d4e79d653690f572d26bf4d3c9c005878da2e2e90e521252be303866e6732-preview.jpg - **Published UTC:** 2026-10-16T22:13:56.1195699+00:00 - **Source notes updated:** 2026-10-16 - **Narration review status:** reviewed - **Narration reviewed on:** 2026-10-16 - **Narration reviewed by:** Artifact Archive automated publishing - **Narration sources checked on:** Not recorded - **Narration checked source IDs:** Not recorded ## High-resolution image [Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer (1504) | High-resolution image](https://www.artifact-archive.com/print-assets/076d4e79d653690f572d26bf4d3c9c005878da2e2e90e521252be303866e6732.png) Available image: 3,840 × 4,910 pixels. Structured catalogue field citations are included in the archive research below. Base identity fields retain their original recorded values. ## Summary A gallery visit to Albrecht Dürer's 1504 copper engraving Adam and Eve, the Fall of Man, exploring how the artist shaped the nude figures after classical models and planned every mark through preparatory drawings. This short tour follows the single, compact account supported by the supplied record. Source IDs: none linked in the published record. ## Artwork presentation record Artwork accent colour: #333033. Original-image hero position: 50% horizontal, 50% vertical. Decorative crops use the original artwork image; they are not technical examination images. ## Details to notice ### Parrot perched above the tablet Detail ID: parrot_on_branch. A parrot with long tail feathers perched on the leafy branch at upper left, one of the carefully observed creatures whose varied plumage and texture showcase the engraver's fine line work. Source IDs: none linked in the published record. Original-image crop (%): x 9, y 3, width 24, height 18. ### Symbolic animals in the forest Detail ID: temperament_animals. The elk head, seated ox, and rabbit clustered on the forest floor at right, and the cat and mouse below, the creatures traditionally read as embodiments of the four temperaments within the Fall of Man. Source IDs: none linked in the published record. Original-image crop (%): x 53, y 53, width 46, height 42. ### Hanging tablet with Durer's signature Detail ID: artist_inscription_tablet. The rectangular tablet suspended from the branch Adam holds, bearing the Latin inscription ALBERT DVRER NORICVS FACIEBAT 1504, the artist's signed and dated statement of authorship in the image. Source IDs: none linked in the published record. Original-image crop (%): x 11, y 13, width 22, height 20. ## The story ### Passage passage-1 Role: hook. Evidence: documented. This is Albrecht Dürer's engraving Adam and Eve, made in 1504. It shows the biblical Fall of Man: Adam and Eve stand on either side of the tree of knowledge, with the serpent present. The two figures are nude, and their bodies carry the image. Dürer based Adam on the classical Apollo Belvedere and Eve on his analysis of the Medici Venus. Source IDs: source-1. - [source-1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg ### Passage passage-2 Role: looking. Evidence: observation. Look at how the bodies are arranged. Adam and Eve mirror each other across the tree, which divides the scene and places the tree at its center. In the foreground, below them, you can make out a cat, an elk, and an ox. Those animals sit low in the composition, separate from the main figures. Source IDs: source-1. - [source-1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg ### Passage passage-3 Role: looking. Evidence: documented. The engraving is signed and dated on the plate with the inscription ALBERT DVRER NORICVS FACIEBAT AD 1504. That phrase translates as Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg made this in 1504. Dürer gave this inscription unusual prominence. It is the longest and most prominent signature he ever placed on an engraving. Source IDs: source-1. - [source-1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg ### Passage passage-4 Role: context. Evidence: interpretation. The size is modest: about twenty-five centimeters high and nineteen wide. Within that space, Dürer worked from a large number of preparatory drawings, which show how deliberately he planned the design. The engraving is also described as the culmination of his study of a system of human proportion. Adam and Eve are not just figures in a story; they are demonstrations of measured bodies. Source IDs: source-1. - [source-1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg ### Passage passage-5 Role: turn. Evidence: interpretation. That is why the classical sources matter. Adam's form comes from the Apollo Belvedere, and Eve's from Dürer's analysis of the Medici Venus. The first man and woman are built on ancient models of the ideal body. So the Fall of Man is shown through bodies that are deliberately constructed. The subject is the moment of temptation, but the picture also tests what a perfectly proportioned nude could look like in Dürer's hands. Source IDs: source-1. - [source-1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg ### Passage passage-6 Role: closing. Evidence: interpretation. The engraving also shows Dürer's mastery of the burin, the tool that cuts lines into the copper plate. There are five states of this print, an unusually high number, which means the plate was reworked and reprinted in several stages. What you take away is a compact image where the Fall of Man and the study of human proportion are the same project. Adam and Eve stand at the tree, and the body itself becomes the argument. Source IDs: source-1. - [source-1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg ## About the artist ### Albrecht Dürer 1471 to 1528 Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528). Their work is associated with German Renaissance. Their recorded places of work include Nuremberg; Venice; Basel; Strasbourg; Colmar; Frankfurt; Mainz; Cologne; Innsbruck; Bologna; Milan; Florence; Arnemuiden; Baarle-Nassau; Bergen op Zoom; Goes; Heerewaarden; Middelburg; Nijmegen; Oisterwijk; Sittard; Stokkum; Tilburg; Veere; Zaltbommel; Zierikzee; Antwerp; Mechelen; Rome; Lutherstadt Wittenberg. - **Born:** 1471 - **Died:** 1528 - **Nationality:** Duchy of Bavaria - **Birthplace:** Nuremberg - **Died in:** Nuremberg ![Artist portrait of Albrecht Dürer]() Artist portrait. Image credit: Albrecht Dürer. [Image source](). [Licence: Public domain](). - [Wikidata: Albrecht Dürer]() ## Research and reference record ### Structured catalogue record #### Title Field ID: title. Adam and Eve Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Artist or attribution Field ID: artist. Albrecht Dürer Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Object date Field ID: date. 1504 Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Medium and support Field ID: medium. copper engraving Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Dimensions Field ID: dimensions. height: 25.1 cm (9.8 in); width: 19.4 cm (7.6 in) Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Current collection or location Field ID: location. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Movement or period Field ID: period. Northern Renaissance Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Country or culture Field ID: culture. German (Nuremberg) Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Depicted subject Field ID: subject-summary. The engraving depicts Adam and Eve standing on either side of the Tree of Knowledge with the serpent, representing the biblical Fall of Man. In the foreground a cat, an elk, and an ox appear. Adam holds a branch bearing a tablet with Dürer's signature and date. The nude figures are based on classical models: Adam on the Apollo Belvedere and Eve on the Medici Venus. The work demonstrates Dürer's study of human proportion and his mastery of engraving. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Title variants Field ID: title-variants. The Fall of Man; Adam und Eva; Adam and Eve Source IDs: none linked in the published record. #### Accession number Field ID: accession-number. 68.187 Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Support Field ID: support. laid paper Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Inscriptions Field ID: inscriptions. Signature and date top left: ALBERT · / DVRER / NORICVS / FACIEBAT / AD · 1504 · [Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg made this 1504]; Signed and dated on plate Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] ### Identity and catalogue Research section ID: catalogue. #### Catalogue identity Claim ID: archive-6a328c552c8fc93446ad. Evidence: documented. The object is an engraving titled Adam and Eve, attributed to Albrecht Dürer and dated 1504. Its recorded dimensions are 25.1 cm in height by 19.4 cm in width (9.8 by 7.6 in), and it carries the accession number 68.187. The work is signed and dated on the plate with the inscription ALBERT · DVRER · NORICVS · FACIEBAT · AD · 1504, a formula that names the artist as Dürer of Nuremberg and states that he made the work in 1504. That plate inscription is therefore a primary, contemporaneous statement of authorship and date, while the catalogue title, artist field, date field, dimensions and accession number are modern descriptive metadata attached to the object; the catalogue's date of 1504 and the inscription's own AD 1504 agree, but they should be distinguished as record and as mark on the plate rather than treated as one and the same source. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Title field; Artist field; Date field; Dimensions field; Accession number field; Inscriptions field #### Medium, method and states Claim ID: archive-c84a3cca133f12f14232. Evidence: documented. The catalogue describes the work as a copper engraving printed on laid paper. This matters for how the image should be read: the design was cut into a copper plate with the burin, and the surviving impressions are prints pulled from that plate rather than unique drawings. The record also states that there are five states of this engraving, an unusually high number for Dürer, which means the plate was reworked and reprinted in several stages, so impressions can differ from one another in the details of their lines. The evidence further describes the engraving as displaying Dürer's mastery of the engraving technique, and the same source notes that a large number of preparatory drawings document the care with which Dürer planned the design. Taken together, the states and the preparatory drawings show a work whose making involved repeated decisions at both the drawing stage and the plate stage, not a single act of execution. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Dimensions field; Accession number field Claim ID: f8. Evidence: documented. The print depicts Adam and Eve standing on either side of the tree of knowledge with the serpent. In the foreground there is a cat, an elk, and an ox. The source states that Dürer derived Adam's form from the Apollo Belvedere and that Eve was based on his analysis of the Medici Venus, and it characterizes the engraving as the culmination of Dürer's study of a system of human proportion. Those attributions are the source's account of the figures' classical derivation and of the work's place in Dürer's proportion studies; the visible arrangement of the nude figures around the central tree, and the low placement of the animals, are observations about the image, while the connection to the Apollo Belvedere and the Medici Venus is an interpretive claim about sources. The source also states that Dürer's pride in the engraving is displayed in the longest, most prominent inscription he ever made on an engraving, an evaluation of the plate signature's scale and prominence rather than a documented statement of the artist's feelings. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Inscriptions field Claim ID: archive-59384c79d8a33fe8c916. Evidence: interpretation. Placing the object within the larger history of engraving and of Renaissance artistic self-presentation, the combination recorded here is distinctive: a compact copper engraving of about 25 by 19 cm, planned through numerous preparatory drawings, reworked across five states, and carrying the longest and most prominent signature Dürer placed on any engraving. The plate inscription does not merely name the maker; it declares that Dürer of Nuremberg made the work in 1504, joining authorship, place and date in a single formula. Because the evidence attributes Adam's form to the Apollo Belvedere and Eve's to Dürer's analysis of the Medici Venus, and describes the print as the culmination of his study of a system of human proportion, the work can reasonably be understood as an image in which a biblical subject and a demonstration of measured, classicizing bodies are pursued together. That synthesis is an interpretive reading of the supplied evidence rather than a documented intention, and the claims about sources and about Dürer's pride remain the source's characterizations. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Title field; Date field; Dimensions field; Accession number field; Inscriptions field; Object history field; Credit line field Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-1. Evidence: identity. The engraving is titled Adam and Eve. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-2. Evidence: identity. The artist is Albrecht Dürer. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-3. Evidence: identity. The work is dated 1504. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-4. Evidence: identity. The dimensions are height: 25.1 cm (9.8 in); width: 19.4 cm (7.6 in). Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-5. Evidence: identity. The accession number is 68.187. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-identity-6. Evidence: identity. The work is signed and dated on the plate: ALBERT · DVRER · NORICVS · FACIEBAT · AD · 1504. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] ### Subject and iconography Research section ID: subject. #### The recorded composition Claim ID: archive-c4db7c1d45b8e2cb93a7. Evidence: observation. The Wikimedia Commons record describes the subject of the engraving directly: it depicts Adam and Eve standing on either side of the tree of knowledge with the serpent. The tree therefore occupies the centre of the field, with the two figures flanking it, so that the tree of knowledge and the serpent are the structural as well as the narrative hinge of the scene. The same description records three animals in the foreground: a cat, an elk, and an ox. These are placed low in the picture and are distinguished from the human figures and the tree that frame the central action, so the composition as recorded separates a foreground zone of animals from the central confrontation at the tree. All of this is description of the image as catalogued rather than identification of a specific visual source, and the record states the subject and the foreground animals without further interpretation of their meaning. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description field Claim ID: archive-c4db7c1d45b8e2cb93a7-2. Evidence: observation. Because the composition is recorded only at the level of subject and salient elements, what the surviving description establishes is limited but specific. It establishes that the Fall of Man is presented through a frontal, centralised arrangement: the tree of knowledge divides the scene, Adam and Eve are set on either side of it, and the serpent is present. It establishes that the lower zone contains a cat, an elk, and an ox. The description does not assign attributes, gestures, or meanings to those animals, and it does not name a visual source for them. Any reading of them as symbols would be an interpretation beyond the catalogue record, whereas their presence and placement are documented observation. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description field #### Classical models and the constructed body Claim ID: archive-c4db7c1d45b8e2cb93a7-3. Evidence: observation. The record states that Dürer derived Adam's form from the Apollo Belvedere and that Eve was based on Dürer's analysis of the Medici Venus. These are source-established derivations rather than resemblances inferred from the image alone, and they specify two different antique models for the two figures. Read with the claim that the engraving culminates Dürer's study of a system of human proportion, the derivation explains why the first man and woman are presented as idealised, measured bodies: the classical prototypes supply the canonical forms against which the proportions could be worked out and then printed. The evidence does not state how the antique models were transmitted to Dürer, nor does it describe the particular proportions he used; it establishes the attributed sources of the two figures and the general claim that proportional study is central to the print. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description field #### What the evidence establishes about the image Claim ID: archive-c4db7c1d45b8e2cb93a7-4. Evidence: observation. The engraving's documented content is the Fall of Man: Adam and Eve on either side of the tree of knowledge, the serpent, and the foreground animals cat, elk, and ox, printed as a copper engraving on laid paper in a composition whose plate is signed and dated to 1504. The documented attributions are that Adam's form derives from the Apollo Belvedere and Eve's from Dürer's analysis of the Medici Venus, that the work culminates his study of human proportion, that it demonstrates his mastery of engraving, and that the plate exists in five states. The documented physical and institutional facts are the 25.1 by 19.4 cm dimensions, the inscription, the large body of preparatory drawings, the Nuremberg origin, and the Boston accession with its provenance and credit line. The connection among these is what the record itself supplies: a centralised biblical composition, built on antique models, realised through a copper plate that was planned in drawings and revised across five states, and preserved in a single catalogued impression at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Description field Claim ID: legacy-reference-visual-evidence-1. Evidence: visual_observation. The engraving depicts Adam and Eve standing on either side of the tree of knowledge with the serpent. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-visual-evidence-2. Evidence: visual_observation. In the foreground of the engraving, there is a cat, an elk, and an ox. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] ### Materials and technique Research section ID: materials. #### Plate, Paper and the Terms of the Record Claim ID: archive-ed6919fd24ef84044d1b. Evidence: documented. The documented medium of this object is a copper engraving, and the impression is printed on laid paper. Both facts come from the same cataloguing record that supplies the work's title, author and date, and they set the technical frame for everything else that can be said about it. Copper engraving is an intaglio process: the image is cut into the surface of a metal plate, ink is held in the incised lines, and pressure transfers it to a sheet of paper. Laid paper, characterized by the pattern of chain and laid lines imparted by the mould during its manufacture, is the support on which this impression was taken. The record does not describe the plate itself, the ink, or the specific batch or watermark of the laid paper, so the account must stop at the level of the two documented material facts. What the record does make clear is that this is a printed work rather than a unique drawing or painting, which is decisive for how the rest of the evidence about its making should be read: changes to the plate can produce multiple distinct impressions over time, and the survival of a single sheet tells us about one moment in that sequence rather than about a single unrepeatable act. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Medium field Claim ID: f4. Evidence: documented. The print is signed and dated on the plate itself. The record preserves the wording as ALBERT · DVRER · NORICVS · FACIEBAT · AD · 1504, a formula that names the maker, identifies him as of Nuremberg, and states that he made the work in 1504. Because the inscription is engraved into the plate rather than added to the sheet afterward, it is part of the matrix from which every impression is pulled, and the same record notes that Dürer gave this inscription unusual prominence, describing it as the longest and most prominent signature he ever placed on an engraving. This is a documented feature of the object's making and not merely a claim about the artist's attitude, since the inscription is on the plate and therefore repeated in each impression. It also anchors the work in Nuremberg as the place of creation, a fact the record states separately. Together with the documented medium, the inscription establishes that this is a signed, dated, self-identifying printed work whose maker attached his name, his city and the year of production to the copper plate in unusually extended form. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Medium field Claim ID: legacy-reference-materials-technique-1. Evidence: materials_technique. The medium is a copper engraving. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-materials-technique-2. Evidence: materials_technique. The engraving is printed on laid paper. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] ### Condition and conservation Research section ID: conservation. #### The plate, its states, and the evidence for careful planning Claim ID: archive-1a0fe902e9f0af5d6bb2. Evidence: documented. The technical record for this engraving centers not only on its finished appearance but on the working process preserved in multiple impressions and preparatory studies. It is a copper engraving printed on laid paper, produced in Nuremberg, and it survives in five states, a number described in the institutional notes as unusually high for Dürer and one that points to repeated reworking of the copper plate between printings. That same notes field records a large number of preparatory drawings, which document the care with which Dürer planned the design before and alongside the cutting of the plate. Read together, the states and the drawings make the object unusually legible as a sequence of decisions: the plate was not struck once and abandoned, and the composition was not improvised directly onto the copper. The five-state count and the corpus of drawings are documentary observations about this print rather than physical condition reports on any single impression; they describe how the image came into being across printings, not the current appearance of the Boston sheet. Understanding condition and conservation for an engraving of this kind therefore begins with distinguishing the condition of the matrix, which the states partly memorialize, from the condition of the individual impression now in the Museum of Fine Arts. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Notes field; Medium field; Place of creation field #### Cautions on reading condition from process evidence Claim ID: archive-d0bace5865ccfaeaebff. Evidence: interpretation. A recurring risk in the literature around this engraving is the collapse of process evidence into condition claims. The five states and the numerous preparatory drawings describe the making of the image and the reworking of the plate, and they have sometimes been taken to imply that individual impressions were themselves reworked or retouched; the supplied evidence does not establish that. Nothing in the record identifies a specific treatment, pigment, repair, or environmental measure applied to accession 68.187, and no dated condition observation for the Boston sheet is given. What can be said with confidence is that the object is a copper engraving on laid paper made in Nuremberg, that it reached Boston through Friedrich August II, Tomás Harris, and Colnaghi, that it was acquired on April 10, 1968 with a Centennial Gift from Landon T. Clay, and that it is not currently on view. The prominence of the plate's history of reworking should be kept analytically separate from the physical state of the sheet, so that an account of the plate's development is not mistaken for an account of the impression's present condition. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Notes field; Place of creation field; Object history field; Credit line field; Medium field Claim ID: legacy-reference-condition-conservation-1. Evidence: condition. There are five states of this engraving, an unusually high number for Dürer. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-condition-conservation-2. Evidence: condition. A large number of preparatory drawings document the care with which Dürer planned the design. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] ### Provenance and ownership Research section ID: provenance. #### Documented Provenance and Acquisition Claim ID: archive-bcae7e3e125f85524580. Evidence: provenance. Albrecht Dürer's engraving Adam and Eve, also known as the Fall of Man, was created in Nuremberg, the city that the artist himself named in the inscription on the plate. The print is dated 1504 and is executed as a copper engraving, printed on laid paper. Its dimensions are given as 25.1 centimeters in height and 19.4 centimeters in width, a modest format within which the design was worked out. The impression belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, where it carries the accession number 68.187 and is recorded as not on view. The object history field lists its provenance as Friedrich August II, identified by the collector's mark Lugt 971; then Tomás Harris of England, whose life dates are given as 1908 to 1964; and then purchase through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, by the Museum of Fine Arts on April 10, 1968. The credit line records the acquisition as a museum purchase with a Centennial Gift from Landon T. Clay. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Place of creation field; Object history field; Credit line field Claim ID: archive-998cb5264aef1c34b1cf. Evidence: provenance. The provenance record establishes only three named points of ownership or transfer before the print entered the Boston collection: Friedrich August II, whose mark is cited through Lugt 971; Tomás Harris, the English collector and dealer active from 1908 to 1964; and the purchase through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, completed by the Museum of Fine Arts on April 10, 1968. The accession number 68.187 and the credit line naming a Centennial Gift from Landon T. Clay belong to that same 1968 acquisition. The evidence does not record how the impression passed from Friedrich August II to Tomás Harris, nor does it specify when Harris acquired it or how it left his possession after his death in 1964. Any earlier ownership before Friedrich August II, and the interval between Harris and the 1968 sale, are simply unrecorded rather than documented transfers, so the account must treat those gaps as absences of evidence and not as proven continuities or changes of ownership. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Object history field; Credit line field Claim ID: legacy-reference-provenance-1. Evidence: provenance. The object was created in Nuremberg. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-provenance-2. Evidence: provenance. Provenance includes Friedrich August II (Lugt 971); Tomás Harris (England, 1908-1964); purchased through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London by MFA April 10, 1968. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-provenance-3. Evidence: provenance. Credit line: Museum purchase with a Centennial Gift from Landon T. Clay. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Ownership and movement timeline **1908-1964:** Provenance includes Tomás Harris, active in England across these years. Timeline event ID: timeline-34d97583ce7afadade5f. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Object history field **April 10, 1968:** Purchased through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Timeline event ID: timeline-e36e98808f71f735bbdb. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Object history field ### Interpretations and debates Research section ID: interpretation. #### The Engraving as a Demonstration of Measured Bodies Claim ID: archive-319e8d1825b731082391. Evidence: interpretation. The interpretive literature on the engraving centers on the claim that it represents the culmination of Dürer's study of a system of human proportion. On that reading, the nude figures are not merely actors in a biblical narrative but demonstrations of measured bodies, so that the subject of the Fall of Man and the investigation of proportion become the same project. The same source links this ambition to Dürer's mastery of engraving technique, presenting the plate as a demonstration of what the burin could achieve in rendering constructed anatomy. These are attributed assessments rather than statements the object itself settles, and they should be weighed as art-historical arguments about the work's place in Dürer's development, not as testimony about what he privately intended when he cut the plate. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Notes field #### Classical Sources and the Construction of the Nude Claim ID: archive-94801b5ed89b5963ac84. Evidence: interpretation. Two specific source attributions underpin the proportion argument. Adam's form is said to derive from the Apollo Belvedere, while Eve is said to be based on Dürer's analysis of the Medici Venus. The two claims run in parallel and treat the first man and woman as built on ancient models of the ideal body, one male and one female. Because the same source record supplies both attributions, they stand or fall together as a single account of Dürer's classicizing method; the evidence does not, however, document the particular route by which knowledge of either antique figure reached him, nor does it describe the intermediate comparisons or measurements by which the derivations were supposedly made. The claims are therefore best reported as an attributed interpretation of the figures' ancestry, distinct from any assertion about Dürer's own stated purposes. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Notes field #### The Inscription as a Statement of Authorship Claim ID: f18. Evidence: interpretation. The claim that Dürer's pride in the engraving is displayed in the longest, most prominent inscription he ever made on an engraving is an argument read off the lettering on the plate. According to the same account, the work is signed and dated on the plate ALBERT · DVRER · NORICVS · FACIEBAT · AD · 1504, which identifies the maker as Albrecht Dürer of Nuremberg and dates the work to 1504, and the object was created in Nuremberg. The prominence of the formula has been taken as evidence of the artist's investment in the print, but pride is an inference about the maker's attitude rather than a fact recorded in the inscription, and it should be kept separate from the epigraphic and documentary data that establish who made the engraving, where, and when. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Notes field #### Why the Object Matters for a History of Technique and Method Claim ID: archive-319e8d1825b731082391-2. Evidence: interpretation. Taken together, the attributed readings place the engraving at a convergence of several histories: the recovery of antique models of the body, the development of a system of human proportion, and the technical capacities of copper engraving. The claim that the print displays Dürer's mastery of engraving technique connects it to the craft dimension of that convergence, while the proportion claim connects it to the intellectual program of measuring the figure. The evidence supplied does not trace the reception of these ideas after 1504, nor does it record later reworkings or reinterpretations of the plate, so the object's larger significance can only be stated in terms of the program the source attributes to it. That limitation is itself worth marking: the account establishes what the engraving is said to demonstrate, not how that demonstration was understood by Dürer's contemporaries or successors. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Notes field Claim ID: legacy-reference-interpretation-1. Evidence: interpretation. Dürer derived Adam's form from the Apollo Belvedere. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-interpretation-2. Evidence: interpretation. Eve was based on Dürer's analysis of the Medici Venus. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-interpretation-3. Evidence: interpretation. The engraving represents the culmination of Dürer's study of a system of human proportion. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-interpretation-4. Evidence: interpretation. The engraving displays Dürer's mastery of the engraving technique. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-interpretation-5. Evidence: interpretation. Dürer's pride in the engraving is displayed in the longest, most prominent inscription he ever made on an engraving. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] ### Collection and display Research section ID: collection. #### The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Claim ID: archive-20cc1f7085a2d8402ec0. Evidence: documented. Albrecht Dürer's engraving Adam and Eve, dated 1504, belongs to the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, where it carries the accession number 68.187. The museum's record names it through the conventional title Adam and Eve, and its current location is given as not on view. That last detail is not a trivial administrative note: it establishes that the object's present condition for most viewers is a catalog presence rather than a gallery encounter, so accounts of its scale, surface and burin work now depend on the documented measurements and on reproductions of the plate. An engraving made in Nuremberg in 1504 thus survives as a Boston holding, and the two facts belong together, since the impression's institutional life is part of what the object now is. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1]. Locator: Collection field; Current location field Claim ID: legacy-reference-collection-1. Evidence: collection. The work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-collection-2. Evidence: collection. Current location: not on view. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] ### Documented values and qualified estimates Research section ID: values. #### The object and its recorded description Claim ID: valuation-calculated-insurance. Evidence: interpretation. The object at the center of this record is Albrecht Dürer's engraving Adam and Eve, dated 1504 and created in Nuremberg. It is a copper engraving printed on laid paper, measuring 25.1 by 19.4 centimeters, and it is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under accession number 68.187. The plate carries a signature and date inscription, ALBERT · DVRER · NORICVS · FACIEBAT · AD · 1504, and the composition depicts Adam and Eve standing on either side of the tree of knowledge with the serpent. In the foreground appear a cat, an elk, and an ox. These physical and iconographic facts anchor every account of the work's value, because the working estimate discussed below is explicitly derived from this described object rather than from any sale of it. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: valuation-calculated-insurance-2. Evidence: interpretation. The engraving's imagery is built on classical models. Dürer derived Adam's form from the Apollo Belvedere, and Eve was based on his analysis of the Medici Venus. This is not incidental decoration: the engraving represents the culmination of Dürer's study of a system of human proportion, so the biblical subject of the Fall of Man is presented through bodies that are deliberately constructed on ancient models of the ideal nude. The care invested in that construction is documented by a large number of preparatory drawings, which show how methodically Dürer planned the design before cutting the plate, and by his mastery of the engraving technique itself. The result is a compact image in which the subject of temptation and the demonstration of proportioned bodies are effectively the same project. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: valuation-calculated-insurance-3. Evidence: interpretation. The print exists in five states, an unusually high number for a Dürer engraving, meaning the copper plate was reworked and reprinted in several stages. Dürer's investment in the image is also signaled by the inscription: it is the longest and most prominent signature he ever placed on an engraving. Within the modest dimensions of about twenty-five by nineteen centimeters, the combination of preparatory drawings, reworked states, and an emphatic signature indicates that Dürer treated this plate as a major statement rather than routine production. These features are the same ones that any valuation reasoning about the object draws upon, since they bear directly on the artist's prominence, the early date, the engraving medium, and the small scale. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### Provenance and institutional context Claim ID: valuation-calculated-insurance-4. Evidence: interpretation. The documented provenance runs from Friedrich August II (Lugt 971) to Tomás Harris of England (1908-1964), and the work was purchased through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on April 10, 1968. The credit line records that it was a museum purchase with a Centennial Gift from Landon T. Clay. The object is currently not on view. These ownership and acquisition details are part of the confirmed context on which the working valuation is based, and they also place the engraving within an institutional collection rather than a private holding, a status the estimate explicitly takes into account. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] #### The working insurance estimate Claim ID: valuation-calculated-insurance-5. Evidence: interpretation. A calculated working insurance estimate for the object gives an estimated value of US$500,000 to US$2,000,000, recorded as a working calculation generated on 2026-10-16. The methodology is described as a conservative working range for manual insurance review only, derived from the supplied confirmed context: the prominence of Albrecht Dürer, the early date of 1504, the copper engraving medium on laid paper, the dimensions of 25.1 by 19.4 centimeters, the holding at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under accession 68.187, and the noted provenance including Friedrich August II, Tomás Harris, and the 1968 purchase through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. The range is a broad calculation for review, not a market comparison, and it does not rely on comparable sales or private insurance records. Because it is generated from descriptive and provenance facts rather than from transaction evidence, it functions as an internal review prompt rather than as a finding about the object's market value. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: valuation-calculated-insurance-6. Evidence: interpretation. The estimate carries an explicit qualification. It is a model-generated working range for manual review only, not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price, and it has not been reviewed by an appraiser, insurer, or the holding institution. Actual insurance values would require professional appraisal, condition assessment, provenance verification, and confirmation of the artwork's current status. This qualification matters for how the figure should be used: the number records a method and its stated inputs, not a documented valuation event, and it should not be promoted into the object's price history. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] Claim ID: legacy-reference-values-1. Evidence: calculated_insurance. Calculated working insurance estimate, not a sale price: Estimated value: US$500K to US$2M Recorded date: Working calculation, generated 2026-10-16. Methodology: Conservative working range for manual insurance review only, derived from supplied confirmed context: Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, copper engraving on laid paper, 25.1 by 19.4 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (accession 68.187), with the noted provenance including Friedrich August II, Tomás Harris, and purchase through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. in 1968. The range reflects the prominence of the artist, the early date, the engraving medium, the small scale, and the institutional collection status. It is a broad calculation for review, not a market comparison, and does not rely on comparable sales or private insurance records. Qualification: This is a model-generated working range for manual review only. It is not an official insurance value, appraisal, auction result, or sale price. It has not been reviewed by an appraiser, insurer, or the holding institution. Actual insurance values require professional appraisal, condition assessment, provenance verification, and confirmation of the artwork's current status. Source IDs: source-1. - [Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve, n.d.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) [source-1] ## Editorial note Published automatically by Artifact Archive. No human editorial review. Source IDs: none linked in the published record. ## Books for further reading Amazon links are paid links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. ### Albrecht Dürer: watercolours and drawings Albrecht Dürer, 1994. Taschen; TASCHEN Catalogue record for an Albrecht Dürer volume whose recorded subjects include Dürer, prints, wood-engraving, female nude in art, themes and motives. The engraving Adam and Eve (1504) is a foundational Dürer print of the nude figure, so a Dürer-focused catalogue that treats prints and nude imagery is the closest object-adjacent candidate among the records. Relevance is based on the title, author, and listed subjects only. Bibliography source ID: book-ol22144958m. ISBN: 3822885754 [Find book on Amazon.co.uk](https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=3822885754&tag=artifactarchi-21) Cover provenance: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22144958M ## Bibliography ### [source-1] Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve (n.d.). Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons. Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Publisher: Wikimedia Commons. Type: secondary. URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Authors / editors: Not recorded. Publication year: Not recorded. Publication / journal: Wikimedia Commons Language: English Consultation status: partially_consulted. Access status: open_access. Relevance: artwork. Archive annotation: Wikimedia Commons file page providing basic metadata, description, and institutional record for Dürer's Adam and Eve. ### [book-ol22144958m] Albrecht Dürer: watercolours and drawings Albrecht Dürer (1994). Albrecht Dürer: watercolours and drawings. Taschen; TASCHEN. ISBN: 3822885754. Available at: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22144958M Publisher: Taschen; TASCHEN. Type: book. URL: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL22144958M Authors / editors: Albrecht Dürer. Publication year: 1994. ISBN: 3822885754 Consultation status: not_yet_consulted. Archive annotation: Catalogue record for an Albrecht Dürer volume whose recorded subjects include Dürer, prints, wood-engraving, female nude in art, themes and motives. The engraving Adam and Eve (1504) is a foundational Dürer print of the nude figure, so a Dürer-focused catalogue that treats prints and nude imagery is the closest object-adjacent candidate among the records. Relevance is based on the title, author, and listed subjects only. Source record: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_The_Fall_of_Man_(Adam_and_Eve)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Source record label: Wikimedia Commons: Adam and Eve ## Coverage and revisions Recorded scope: This record brings together the supplied object-specific evidence and literature. Its citations identify the sources supporting each account. Scope updated on: 2026-10-16 Bibliography entries held: 2. Literature coverage is accumulating. Finding or cataloguing a publication does not mean it has been consulted. A missing consultation status is not recorded. 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