Collection
Albrecht Dürer
(Germany 1471–1528)
- Title
- St George on horseback
- Year
- 1508
- Media category
- Materials used
- engraving
- Dimensions
-
10.8 x 8.5cm image/sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.c., [incised plate] "1508 / AD [artist's monogram]".
- Credit
- Purchased 1942
- Accession number
- 7336
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The date on this engraving shows a correction from 1505 to 1508. Evidently, it was begun before the artist's departure for Italy in 1505, and completed after his return. The print is one of a number of works depicting horses that Dürer made in first years of the sixteenth century.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Nicholas Draffin, Piety and Paganism 1991, Sydney, 1991, 12.
- Exhibition history (3)
-
Piety and Paganism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jul 1991–29 Sep 1991
German Old Master Prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Mar 1998–16 Jun 1998
Old Europe: Prints & drawings from the collection 1500-1800, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Jun 2006–06 Aug 2006
