Five Soldiers and a Turk on Horseback, 1495/1496

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 13.3 × 14.6 cm (5 1/4 × 5 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 81

Accession Number

1943.3.3455

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper center, in graphite by a later hand: M M [crossed out]; verso, lower center, in brown ink [?] by a later hand: B 1602 [collector's mark?] [sideways]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: UE [?] [underlined] / ZS [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 84; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C.7521; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B.88 [underlined]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand:10

Marks and Labels

verso, center, sideways in brown ink, by a later hand: [unidentified collector's mark, Lugt 365, with date 1602)

Provenance

unidentified collector (Lugt 365); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1929: Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 37.

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. 4.