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  • "Achior"
    Type: inscription
    Location: bottom center
    Materials: pen and dark brown ink
  • James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
  • Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College
    • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
    • Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
    • University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
    • Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
		

The small format, sketchiness, and narrative nature of this sheet indicate that it was preparatory to a book illustration or other print, but none has yet been found. A different moment in the story was depicted in essentially the same composition by the so-called Master of the Liechtenstein Adoration (repr. Master Drawings, vol. 3, no. I [1965], pls. 38-39). The story of Achior and Holofernes is related in the apocryphal Book of Judith 5:1—14:10.

Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College (Brunswick: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art, 1985).