FORTUNE
1497
Story:
With monogram
106×65 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Late 15th century
Watermark:
a head of a bull with a five-petal flower
Provenance:
N. Basnin’s collection;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1918;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-5162
Comments:
it is one of the first impressions made by Dürer. It is dated by a watermark and by the quality of the plate (M. 71, a)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-2104, on paper without watermarks, first half of the 16th century (M. 70, d)