Dodgson, Campbell; Dürer, Albrecht [Editor]: Albrecht Dürer (London [u.a.]: The Midici Soc., 1926)

of it by confraternities with whose aid he hoped to enlist forces for a march to Rome
and a crusade against the Turks.1 This project became prominent in 1507, the year
preceding Maximilian’s assumption of the imperial crown at Trent in the presence of
the knights of St. George on January 8, 1508. This event gives probably the
approximate date of the engraving. St. George on horseback (No. 49) is actually
dated 1508.

1 On tlie emperor’s connection with the Order of St. George, see K. Giehlow, “ Beitrage
zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Gebetbuches Kaisers Maximilian I” (Jahrb. des Allerh. Kaiser-
hauses, Wien, 1879, xx, 36 ff., esp. p. 98, and C. Dodgson, “ Cat. of German and Flemish Woodcuts
in the British Museum,” I, 313 and II, 321.

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