ST. GEORGE ON HORSEBACK
1508
Monogram and date 1508 (1505, corrected 1508)
108×85 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
1508
Watermark:
a head of a bull with a five-petal flower
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-3007
Comments:
the impression is dated by watermark (M. 56, a)
Other impressions in the Museum collections:
Inv. Г-5183, on the paper with the same watermark as Inv. Г-3007. Dürer used this paper until 1519. Some strokes of the impression are blurred, permitting to suppose that the impression was made during the last years when this paper was used (1518–1519), while Inv. Г-3007 thanks to its quality can be considered one of the first 1508 impressions
