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

DURER


Berlin

220x327 ; 218x32

86. THE CANNON
B.99 O.104 H.1017 B.228 M.85 K.89 F.(8s) Bw.75 Etching
Signature: monogram below the date on sky in left upper corner.
Date: 1518.
The corners are rounded.
Impressions free from rust marks, like that reproduced, are extremely rare. The
gradual increase of these marks on the plate may be traced through successive
impressions.
Watermarks : ‘ high crown ’ (Ha.4), ‘ towers ’ (Ha.9).
Drawing: the Turk is taken from the middle figure in Diirer’s water-colour copy,
presumably drawn in 1506, but dated 1514, from three Orientals in Gentile Bellini’s
Procession of the Holy Cross (British Museum, L.93).
The cannon (Feldschlange) bears the arms of Nuremberg.

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