print
- Museum number
- E,2.1
- Description
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Portrait of Albrecht Dürer, half-length, turned to the left, holding copper plate and burin, wearing fur-trimmed hat and mantel; after a painting then attributed to Dürer; lettered state.
Engraving
- Production date
- 1666-1707
- Dimensions
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Height: 318 millimetres
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Width: 209 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment and a proof before letters, see 1979,U.52.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1834
- Acquisition notes
- The sculptor Joseph Nollekens (d.1823), bequeathed his collection of works by Dürer to the BM subject to a life interest to Francis Douce (d.1834). The printed 'List of additions made to the collections in the British Museum in the year 1834' records 'a folio containing the works of Albert Durer' in 427 pieces. Since 427 prints are recorded in E,2 in the 1837 register, this must have been the intact Douce folio album. This is borne out by the fact that none of the E,2 prints has one of Philipe's oval blindstamps. It seems certain that E,2 remained in the form that it was created by Nollekens and it was inventoried as such in 1837. Nollekens ordered his collection starting with portraits of Dürer, followed by his engravings, first Biblical (in iconographical order), then secular. From 164 to the end the prints are all woodcuts, arranged in fairly random order, though the series are kept together. Although most are works by Dürer himself, there are many prints after his drawings or paintings. Many prints have over the years been exchanged as duplicates.
The two other Dürer albums in the 1837 inventory, E,3 and 4, contain the Dürer prints put together by Philipe in 1808/10 from the Sloane and Cracherode collections and do not include anything from Nollekens.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- E,2.1
