- Museum number
- 1906,0419.103
- Description
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Studies for 'Christ on the Cross', round plate, formerly in an album; with separate studies of the Virgin and Child. 1507-19
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1518 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 130 millimetres
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Width: 101 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The studies on this sheet are for the three main figures in Dürer's engraving ‘Christ on the Cross’ (Dodgson, ‘Dürer Engr.’, pp. 115-7, no. 88, Meder 24). Impressions of this tiny circular print are very rare, and were probably taken from a gold plate which was designed as part of the decoration of the wheel-pommel of a sword made for the Emperor Maximilian I. Following the drawing's acquisition it was published by Dodgson, and its connection with the engraving noted in the ‘Dürer Society’ index. See the print, 1851,1108.1, for full details.
Lit. from J. Rowlands, Drawings by German Artists and Artists from German- speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and and Drawings at the British Museum: the Fifteenth Century, and the Sixteenth Century by Artists born before 1530, London, BM Press, 1993, no.212 : Dürer Society, ix, 1906, p. 16, repr.; Conway, p. 40, no. 728; Dürer Society, xii, 1911, index, p. 70; BM Guide, 1928, p. 45, no. 429; Lippmann, vii, p. 19, no. 829, repr. (in reverse); Tietze, i, p. 123, no. A 111; Flechsig, Dürer, ii, p. 465; Tietze, iii, p. 127, no. A 373, repr.; Winkler, Dürer, iii, p. 53, no. 602, repr.; Panofsky, ii, pp. 69-70, no. 589; Winkler, Leben, p. 285; Rowlands, Dürer, p. 37, no. 242; Strauss, iii, p. 1790, no. 1519/19, repr.
Additional lit: R. Schoch in 'Albrecht Dürer. Das druckgraphische Werk' Band I, 'Kupferstiche, Eisenradierungen und Kaltnadelblätter' Munich, 2001, p.224, under no.90
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1928 BM London, Guide Woodcuts, Drawings of A. Dürer, no. 429
1971, BM, Dürer no.242
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- See Colvin's report 30 March 1906. The drawing was in an album of miscellaneous drawings bought by Heffer's in a sale at Brighton, and was identified when the album was brought to the BM. Dodgosn related the drawing to Hollar's print, Parthey 126, and deduced that the drawing had been in the Arundel collection. This is reasonable, even though there is no statement to this effect on Hollar's etching.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1906,0419.103