drawing
- Museum number
- 1949,0411.101
- Description
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Alexander the Great and Diogenes; the philosopher sitting in his tub with the King and other figures standing before him, trees to left and r, with a river winding through a landscape beyond
Pen and black ink, with grey wash
- Production date
- 1505-1558
- Dimensions
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Height: 269 millimetres
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Width: 198 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Summary of 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. 115:
'Rowlands considered that the pen-work and the use of the wash in this drawing were done in the same hand as a small group of pen drawings in Erlangen (Bock, 'Erlangen', pp. 64-65, nos. 213-5, repr.), two of which are signed with the monogram "HD" in the same form as that seen here. One of these sheets, 'Four fighting landsknechts' (Bock, 'Erlangen', p. 64, no. 213), has a later inscription on its verso, "Herman Döring", which, as Bock has suggested, could help identify the draughtsman. However, there does not appear to be a documented artist with this name; and Rowlands suggested that it it might have been Hans Döring (1490-1560) that was intended. The few drawings mentioned by Ehlers in his monograph on Hans Döring have little in common with the group of sketches that include the present drawing and the associated drawings in Erlangen; so this attribution cannot be substantiated further.'
Lit from Rowlands 1993: : E. Wiegand, Prussian Jahrbuch, lx, 1939, pp. 142-3
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,0411.101
