Saint George Killing the Dragon, 1501/1504

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Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 23.2 × 15.8 cm (9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
image: 21 × 14.2 cm (8 1/4 × 5 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 225

Accession Number

1943.3.3597

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in block, bottom right, on stone: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, top left, in graphite by a later hand: 111 [?} [erased]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 54 [?] [erased]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 63 [underlined]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 30796; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: B 6565 [?] [erased]

Provenance

Purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 2: no. 138.