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Object Type: print
Museum number: E,2.409
Title: Series: Six Knots
Description: One of six decorative patterns of a knot; round shape of seven intertwined strapwork ornaments with black centers, in the four corners single knots with ornamental foliage. Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer; After: Leonardo da Vinci
School/style: German
Production date: 1506-1507 (circa)
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut
Dimensions: Height: 272 millimetres; Width: 210 millimetres
Curator's comments: WM: Cardinal's hat See 1895,0122.724 for comment on the series. The woodblock is in Bautzen, Gersdorff-Weicha-Stiftung.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (279.I); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.160.145); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.293.59); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.147.1) (wrongly illustrated)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2022-23 6 Sept-22 Jan, London, BM, G90a '2 million prints: online for all'
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Joseph Nollekens; Bequeathed through: Francis Douce
Acquisition date: 1834
Acquisition notes: Bequeathed by Joseph Nollekens, subject to a life interest to Francis Douce, 1834.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: E,2.409

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