- Museum number
- SL,5218.136
- Description
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The Virgin and Child seated on a bank; turned to front, the Virgin's head inclined to right, Christ reaching forward. 1501
Pen and black ink
- Production date
- 1501
- Dimensions
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Height: 150 millimetres
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Width: 117 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. 151:
'This drawing is an example of Dürer's astonishing skill with the fine pen, and represents a transitional stage in the evolution of his draughtsmanship. While the drawing of the folds of drapery, especially the shading along the lower edge, retains a youthful vigour, the Virgin's face and the upper part of her body exhibit a calmer, more refined handling of the pen which looks forward to the assurance Dürer displayed in his slightly later drawings associated with his engraving of 1504, ‘Adam and Eve’ (Hollstein 1)'.
Lit from Rowlands 1993: Waagen, Treasures, i, p. 231, no. 136; Hausmann, Naumann's Archiv, p. 40, no. 136; Hausmann, p. 110, no. 114; Ephrussi, p. 54; Conway, p. 15, under no. 207; Pauli, p. 12, no. 255; Lippmann, vi, p. 25, no. 719, repr.; BM Guide, 1928, p. 21, no. 200; Tietze, i, p. 125, no. A 123, repr.; Flechsig, Dürer, ii, p. 439; Winkler, Dürer, i, p. 128, no. 188, repr.; Panofsky, ii, p. 75, no. 655; Winkler, Leben, p. 167; Rowlands, Dürer, p. 17, no. 84; Strauss, ii, p. 574, no. 1501/4, repr.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1928 BM London, Guide Woodcuts, Drawings of A. Dürer, no. 200
1971 BM, 'Dürer' no.84
2004 Mar-Jun, London, National Gallery, 'Dürer and the Virgin in the Garden'
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5218.136
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: C,07.136