Sapphire ring
Date
25 April 1506
Creator
Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528, German) , Printmaker
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 218mm
width (page): 230mm
width (page): 230mm
Description
This is a letter by Albrecht Dürer to Willibald Pirckheimer, in which Dürer enquires about the whereabouts of a sapphire ring he had sent to Hans Imhoff in Nürnberg.
The letter contains a sketch of the ring.
The letter contains a sketch of the ring.
Object history
The letter was discovered in the late nineteenth century by William Mitchell in 'The Codex Arundel' of the Arundel Collection, which is now kept in London at the British Library (Arundel MS 263), see https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/arundel-manuscripts.
The Dürer letter is kept at the Royal Society.
The Dürer letter is kept at the Royal Society.
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