drawing
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.968
- Description
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Soldiers storming a fortress; an army of soldiers with pikes marching towards the fortress at l, two soldiers scaling a ladder above the doorway, men on the battlements above, a man in the moat in foreground at l
Pen and black ink
- Production date
- 1515-1520 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 70 millimetres
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Width: 252 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Edited from J.Rowlands 'Drawings by German Artists and Artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum: the Fifteenth Century, and the Sixteenth Century by Artists born before 1530', London, BM Press, 1993, no. 286:
This drawing entered the Museum with the tentative attribution to Albrecht Altdorfer, with whose work it was kept when it was in the Malcolm collection. Subsequently Meder attributed it to the designer and engraver Franz Brun (active c. 1559-96), while E. Bock proposed the Basel master Hans Franck. Of these two opinions, both noted in the annotated Departmental copy of the Malcolm catalogue, Bock's view is much more persuasive. A comparison with two drawings by Franck which are signed with his monogram, 'Five mercenaries' of 1516 in Berlin (Kupferstichkabinett, KdZ. 4058) and ' Judgement of Paris' of 1518 in Basel (inv. no. u.ix.26b) makes such an attribution very plausible (cf. H.A. Schmid, 'Prussian Jahrbuch', xix, 1898, pp. 73-74, nos. 1, 5).
Lit. from Rowlands 1993: JCR, p. 173, no. 515; BM Dürer and Holbein, p. 215, no. 182, repr.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1988, July-Oct, BM, Age of Dürer & Holbein, no. 182
1996-7, Sept-Jan, BM Malcolm Collection
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.968
