Albrecht Dürer - “The Great Courier” Measures 12” x 17” Acquired from a business whom purchased a museum that closed down. This specific piece is from a collection put together by Adam Bartsch in 1808 from “Le Peintre Graveur" volume 7
Earlier doubts have given way to the opinion that this is Dürer's first experimental engraving since a drawing was found at Danzig (presently Gdansk in Poland) which apparently served as the model for this subject. This drawing is inscribed by Dürer: This was drawn by Wolfgang Peuer in the year 1484.
Nothing else is known about Peuer. He may have been an apprentice or an assistant in the goldsmith's shop of Dürer the Elder or in the workshop of Dürer's teacher, the painter Michael Wolgemut.