Artwork Information

Albrecht Dürer was the most famous artist of the

Northern Renaissance and the Earl of Arundel coveted

his work. Perhaps to his annoyance, the city council of

Nuremberg presented this painting by Dürer – along

with one other – to the earl as a gift for Charles I.

It seems that the earl had both paintings copied so that

he too could enjoy them. Hollar would have had access

to the copies in the earl’s collection and must have

made detailed drawings of them from which he later

made this print.