The Little Courier, c. 1496

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 10.7 × 7.7 cm (4 3/16 × 3 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 79

Accession Number

1943.3.3456

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center, in graphite by a later hand: MH6 [?]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: P. 1818 8/1; verso, center left, in graphite by a later hand: 87; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.80; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C.10034; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 13; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: o/ [?]

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d) from the Print Club of Philadelphia, 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1971: Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 38, repro.

Bibliography

1932: Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 10.