drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5218.25
- Description
-
Head of St Simeon, after Dürer; head and shoulders of a man turned to left and looking slightly down, long wavy beard, wearing a soft hat over his head, extending down across his ears and the sides of his neck
Watercolour and bodycolour
- Production date
- 1503-1513 (circa)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 170 millimetres
-
Width: 112 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- For a discussion of this drawing, see SL,5218.23.
Lit. from Rowlands 1993 'Drawings by German Artists and Artists from German- speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Dawings at the British Museum: the Fifteenth Century and the Sixteenth Century by Artists born before 1530', London, BM Press, 1993, no.266: 'Hausmann, Naumann's Archiv, p. 36, no. 25; Hausmann, p. 107, no. 26; Winkler, K&S, p. 68, no. 57, repr.; Rowlands, Dürer, p. 48, no. 312.'
Additional lit. B. Butts, 'Master Drawings', 2006, no.B17 (attributed to Cranach)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1971, BM, Dúrer no.312
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5218.25
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: C,07.25
