Heilige Joris en de draak, Albrecht Altdorfer, 1511

Title(s)

Heilige Joris en de draak

Object type

• print

Serial number

1

Object number

RP-P-OB-3053

Catalogue reference

• New Hollstein German (Altdorfer) w.58
• The Illustrated Bartsch 55

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘87’

Description

De heilige Joris te paard, steekt met een lans de draak dood. In het landschap, achter een bossage, zit de prinses te bidden.

Artist

• print maker: Albrecht Altdorfer (mentioned on object)

Place

Germany

Dating

1511

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 194 mm × width 150 mm

What

• St. George and the dragon: dressed in armour and mounted on a (white) horse he brandishes his sword (his lance lies already broken on the ground); the princess nearby may be shown praying or fleeing

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Albrecht Altdorfer : a book of 71 woodcuts photographically reproduced in facsimile with an introduction, T. Sturge Moore, p. 134, cat.nr. w.58