- Museum number
- 1919,0519.1
- Description
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The man of sorrows and a drapery study; Christ, half-length, turned almost to front, wearing the crown of thorns and holding open the wound at his chest.
Pen and black ink
- Production date
- 1511 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 231 millimetres
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Width: 144 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Dodgson, who first published this drawing on its acquisition by the Museum, dated it about 1501 and associated it with the engraving, ‘The Man of Sorrows standing with hands raised’ of c. 1500 (Meder 20). Since then, scholars have assigned it a later date. It is very similar in technique, particularly in the lightly hatched parallel shading drawn with rapid fluency in Dürer's drawing, ' Rest on the Flight into Egypt' of 1511 in Berlin, (KdZ 3866; see 'Dürer and his Legacy' 2002, no. 112). The subject and style are also very close to Dürer's 'Passion' prints which he published the same year, particularly the frontispiece for the 'Large Passion' series of woodcuts, 'Christ as Man of Sorrows mocked by a soldier' (Meder 113) and the 'Man of Sorrows standing by a column' of 1509 which he produced for the 'Engraved Passion', (Meder 3).
Lit. 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.179: C. Dodgson, The Burlington Magazine, xxxv, 1919, p. 61; Lippmann, vi, p. 18, no. 672, repr.; BM Guide, 1928, p. 19, no. 176; Tietze, i, p. 123, no. A 113; Flechsig, Dürer, ii, p. 421; Tietze, ii, pp. 83f., no. 529, repr.; Winkler, Dürer, ii, p. 138, no. 476, repr.; Panofsky, ii, p. 73, no. 631; Rowlands, Dürer, p. 24, no. 134; Strauss, iii, p. 1228, no. 1510/14, repr.
Additional lit: G. Bartrum, 'Dürer and his Legacy' exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 2002, no.113; S. Brisman, 'The Unassembled Grammar of Drawing in the Era of Reform' Art History 40:2 (April 2017) fig. 1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1928 BM London, Guide Woodcuts, Drawings of A. Dürer, no. 176
1971 BM, Dürer no.134
2002/3 Dec-Mar, BM, Dürer and his Legacy, no. 113
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Acquisition notes
- Bought by BM from the Locker Lampson sale with substantial assistance from subscribers. According to Dodgson's report to the Trustees of 3 May 1919, these were: J.P Heseltine £35; Francis Wellesley £30; Max J. Bown £25; Prof. W.H. Woodward £25; Charles Loeser £10; R.H. Philipson £10; Maurice Rosenheim £10; Prof. W. Bateson F.R.S £5; R.C. Witt C.B.E £5; The Dürer Society £20; T.D. Barlow £10; C. Dodgson £15. The remaining £100 was made up by the BM reserve fund.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1919,0519.1
