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The Small Courier
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
about 1496
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 10.8 x 7.7 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with a Centennial gift from Landon T. Clay
Accession Number68.182
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 080; Meder 79 (a-b)
Signed
Signed in plate, lower center: [Dürer's monogram]
Marks
No watermark; verso, collector's stamp in black ink [A. Aleroff Collection; Lugt 1727]; collector's stamp in black ink: I [tower] M [John Malcolm; Lugt 1489]; British Museum's Malcolm Collection stamp in brown ink (Lugt 1780) with accession number: 1898_9_15_349; British Museum Duplicate stamp in brown ink (Lugt 305); in old ink: 353 [underlined twice]; many marks in graphite, including: B. 80; Mb39; Mal; 33; 10/1
ProvenanceArkady Nicolayevitch Aleroff (or Olferoff; b. 1811 - d. 1872; Lugt 1727), Bonn and Paris. John Malcolm (b. 1805 - d. 1893; Lugt 1489), Poltalloch, Scotland and London; by inheritance to his son, John Wingfield Malcolm (b. 1833 - d. 1902), Poltalloch; 1895; Malcolm Collection purchased from him by the British Museum; sold as a duplicate by the British Museum. Tomás Harris (b. 1908 - d. 1964), London. 1968, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. (dealers), London; 1968, sold by Colnaghi to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1968)Tomás Harris (b. 1908 - d. 1964), London. 1968, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; 1968, sold by Colnaghi to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1968)