St Jerome in his study, by Durer

An image of St Jerome in his study. Dürer, Albrecht (German, 1471-1528). Engraving, black carbon ink on laid paper, lined on thick Oriental (?) paper, height, plate, 245 mm, width, plate, 181 mm; height, sheet, 245 mm, width, sheet, 181 mm, 1514. Only state.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

St Jerome in his study. Dürer, Albrecht (German, 1471-1528). Engraving, black carbon ink on laid paper, lined on thick Oriental (?) paper, height, plate, 245 mm, width, plate, 181 mm; height, sheet, 245 mm, width, sheet, 181 mm, 1514. Only state.

Image data

Accession Number: 22.I.3-66
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 746 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 323.64kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2014:03:21 14:23:42

Key words

16th Century 458392 Albrecht Durer Artistic Movement Catholic Date Department Durer Fitz_PDP German Interior/Exterior Medium Nationalities Northern Renaissance Object Type Other Keywords People Renaissance St Jerome Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd ascetic bearded beards big cats cats church fathers churches crucifix crucifixion dogs elderly engraving eremitic hermit historian historical hourglass interior lions male man monogram old old man piety pious print religion religious saints scholars skull study theologian theology window window seat Artist/Maker

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "St Jerome in his study, by Durer"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-187952 Accessed: 2025-12-11 03:52:28

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-187952
            |title=St Jerome in his study, by Durer
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-11 03:52:28|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-187952

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp67/22_I_3_66_CE.jpg"
        alt="St Jerome in his study"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">St Jerome in his study, by Durer</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>