Title(s)

H. Joris doodt de draak

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1965-1275

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 4.30

Description

De heilige Joris zit geharnast te paard en rijdt met zwaard in de hand over de draak. Rechts op de achtergrond de prinses. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.

Artist

• print maker: Erhard Schön (attributed to)
• after print by: Hans Springinklee

Place

Neurenberg

Dating

1515 - 1517

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 65 mm × width 56 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

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1965

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Album met prenten van Urs Graf, Erhard Schön, Hans Holbein (II), Hans Weiditz (II) en Hans Springinklee (RP-P-1965-1233-TM-1599)

• Erhard Schön bookillustrations part I, Ursula Mielke, p. 25, cat.nr. 4.30
• German masters of the sixteenth century, Walter L. Strauss, dl. 13 commentary, cat.nr. 007(ah)