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- Museum number
- 1847,1009.59
- Description
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St Jerome walking in a church-yard; accompanied by lion, a large wall to right and building with Romanesque arch in background
Engraving
- Production date
- 1500-1538
- Dimensions
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Height: 121 millimetres
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Width: 104 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See : G.Bartrum 'German Renaissance Prints', exh.cat. BM, 1995, no.193
Text from Bartrum 1995
Literature: Bartsch, 22; Hollstein, 24; Winzinger, 121
Together with Altdorfer's 'Virgin and Child in a Landscape' (Winzinger 122), this engraving offers a close analogy with Dürer's engraving technique. The treatment of the body and the drapery reveal the influence of north Italian art, such as the figure of Christ in the engraving 'Descent into Limbo' of the late 1460s, attributed to Andrea Mantegna (Hind, v, p. 18, 9). However, Altdorfer's striding figure is particularly unusual in its frontal viewpoint, as is the emphasis given to the various textures in the wall behind St Jerome. He has transformed a mundane architectural element into a remarkably dominant feature of the composition.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1995 Jun-Oct, BM, 'German Renaissance Prints, 1490-1550', no.193
1996 Jun-Aug, Canterbury, Royal Mus and AG, German Renaissance Prints
1996 Nov-Dec, Edinburgh, NG of Scotland, German Renaissance Prints
1997 Jan-Mar, Cardiff, Nat Mus of Wales, German Renaissance Prints
1997 Apr-May, Llandudno, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, German Renaissance Prints
1997 Oct-Dec, Norwich, Sainsbury Centre, German Renaissance Prints
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1847,1009.59