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Landsknecht
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A Seated Mercenary
Landsknecht
Urs Graf (German (Switzerland), about 1485–1527 or 1528)
1513
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
104 x 75 mm
Credit Line
Samuel Putnam Avery Fund
Accession NumberM27577
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein 10, i; Nagler 26
DescriptionUrs Graf may have been drawing to the subject of the mercenary soldier because he was employed as such in the year this print was made.
Provenance17th or 18th century, probably purchased by either Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke (b. 1621 - d. 1668), or his son Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (b. 1656 - d. 1733), Wilton House; by descent to their heirs, including Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke (b. 1880 - d. 1960), who sold 16 albums that contained the print collection; July 5-6, 1917, Wilton House sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 80, purchsed for £5.10 by the MFA. (Accession Date: October, 1917)