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Galloping Rider (The Little Courier)


The Small Courier
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
about 1496

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 10.7 × 7.7 cm (4 3/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP344
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch (intaglio) 080; Meder 79 (e)
Signed Signed in plate, lower center: [Dürer's monogram]
Marks No watermark; verso, collector's mark stamped in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA Parker stamp in purple, with accession number in black ink: 344; in graphite: 80; other faint marks in graphite
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)