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The Landscape with the Cannon

The Landscape with the Cannon

(German, 1471–1528)
1518
Medium/TechniqueEtching on iron
DimensionsPlatemark: 21.7 x 32.2 cm (8 9/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
Credit LineKatherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession number68.209
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
Description
This last of Dürer's six etchings is the artist's most ambitious attempt to explore landscape as the dominant subject in a print.  Dürer undoubtedly recognized that etching, with its free and rapid execution, was particularly well-suited to landscape.
InscriptionsGraphite on verso: B99I, 129, __E5.52 Graphite on mount: Harris 104, B99
ProvenanceFriedrich August II (Lugt 971). 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)