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DRAWINGS.
in.
a. Durer. Portrait of Himself at the age of 13.
Collotype (reduced) from a silver-point drawing
(10V x y^in.) in the Albertina Collection, Vienna.
HIS is the earliest portrait of Durer, and the earliest authentic work by his
hand, which we possess. He has written on the drawing at a later time:
“Das hab ich aus eim Spiegel nach mir selbs kunterfet im 1484 Jahr, do ich
noch ein Kind was.—Albrecht Durer.” (This portrait I drew from a mirror
after myself, in the year 1484, when I was still a child.)
A good copy of the drawing by a German artist, also in silver-point, repeating the above
inscription, and itself dated 4th February,
1776, is in the British Museum.
IV.
A. Durer. ii Memento Mei.” Death riding. Signed and dated Gotp
^Reproduced from a charcoal drawing (8# x io^in.) in the ^British ^Museum (purchased 1895), formerly
in the collections of Sir J. C. Robinson and Mr. John Malcolm of Poltalloch.
N. \l
A. Durer. The Death of Orpheus. Signed and dated 1494.
ReproduAion executed for Dr. Lippmann’s edition of Durer’s Drawings (l/ol. II., Ufo. 159) from a pen
and sepia drawing (11^ x 8^in.) in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg; formerly in the Ayrer (16th
century), Sandrart (17th century), and Harden Collections.
Orpheus kneels with his legs wide apart, resting his right hand on the ground, and attempts
to parry with his left hand the blow of a club which one of the Thracian women brandishes on
the right. Another woman, on the left, unseen by Orpheus, is aiming a blow at him from the
back. A frightened child is running away to the left. The lyre is on the ground, a book of
music hangs from a bough of the tree behind the poet, and on a scroll among the foliage is his
name and title.
The drawing belongs to the year 1494, in which Durer was carefully studying Italian art,
whether it be true or not that he paid a first visit to Venice at that time. The accurate copies of
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in.
a. Durer. Portrait of Himself at the age of 13.
Collotype (reduced) from a silver-point drawing
(10V x y^in.) in the Albertina Collection, Vienna.
HIS is the earliest portrait of Durer, and the earliest authentic work by his
hand, which we possess. He has written on the drawing at a later time:
“Das hab ich aus eim Spiegel nach mir selbs kunterfet im 1484 Jahr, do ich
noch ein Kind was.—Albrecht Durer.” (This portrait I drew from a mirror
after myself, in the year 1484, when I was still a child.)
A good copy of the drawing by a German artist, also in silver-point, repeating the above
inscription, and itself dated 4th February,
1776, is in the British Museum.
IV.
A. Durer. ii Memento Mei.” Death riding. Signed and dated Gotp
^Reproduced from a charcoal drawing (8# x io^in.) in the ^British ^Museum (purchased 1895), formerly
in the collections of Sir J. C. Robinson and Mr. John Malcolm of Poltalloch.
N. \l
A. Durer. The Death of Orpheus. Signed and dated 1494.
ReproduAion executed for Dr. Lippmann’s edition of Durer’s Drawings (l/ol. II., Ufo. 159) from a pen
and sepia drawing (11^ x 8^in.) in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg; formerly in the Ayrer (16th
century), Sandrart (17th century), and Harden Collections.
Orpheus kneels with his legs wide apart, resting his right hand on the ground, and attempts
to parry with his left hand the blow of a club which one of the Thracian women brandishes on
the right. Another woman, on the left, unseen by Orpheus, is aiming a blow at him from the
back. A frightened child is running away to the left. The lyre is on the ground, a book of
music hangs from a bough of the tree behind the poet, and on a scroll among the foliage is his
name and title.
The drawing belongs to the year 1494, in which Durer was carefully studying Italian art,
whether it be true or not that he paid a first visit to Venice at that time. The accurate copies of
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