The Grolier Club; Koehler, Sylvester Rosa [Editor]: A chronological catalogue of the engravings, dry-points and etchings of Albert Dürer as exhibited at the Grolier Club (New York: The Grolier Club of New York, 1897)

INTRODUCTION.

finally, on the “ Angel playing the Lute ” (Lippmann, No. 73), we meet
for the first time on a drawing the monogram as subsequently adhered to :

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that is to say, the D inclosed in the A, and this latter spreading at the
top. To the same year belongs the first dated engraved plate, which
also has a similar monogram.
Turning, now, to the engravings, we may construct from them an
evolutionary series, as follows:


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No. 1 of this series is taken from “The Holy Family with the Dragon-
fly ” (No. 2 of this catalogue); No. 2 from “ The Five Footsoldiers and
a Mounted Turk” (No. 3); No. 3 from “The Offer of Love ” (No. 4); No.
4 from “The Prodigal ” (No. 5); and No. 5 from “St. Jerome in Pen-
ance ” (No. 6). Omitting several intermediate stages, which show the
gradual spreading of the A, we arrive at the first dated plate, “ The
Four Naked Women ” (No. 14), of the year 1497, fr°m which Fig. 6 is
taken. The large monogram, No. 7, finally, is copied from one of the
woodcuts of the “ Apocalypse,” which we know to have been published
in the year 1498. If we compare with Nos. 6 and 7 the monogram, Fig.
8, from the “Erasmus,” dated 1526 (No. 102 of this catalogue), which is


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