print
- Museum number
- 1860,0414.156
- Description
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An allegory on the fate of the damned with many scenes of people responsible for their sins, in the upper right is a winged father Time and at left Death
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1540-1550 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 650 millimetres
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Width: 505 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For further information and bibliography see the entry by Silvia Urbini on the online catalogue 'Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento', ALU.0870.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1860
- Acquisition notes
- The 255 woodcuts came from a group of 500 that was offered by Colnaghi for £500 (see Carpenter's report dated 21 March 1860). According to the register these came from the collection of William Russell. Carpenter proposed making a selection of those that the BM lacked; this was first declined by Colnaghi's, but was later accepted (see his later report dated 11 April). The final selection of 255 prints cost 300 guineas. Nos.312 to 327 were Japanese colour prints - almost the earliest to enter the BM collection.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1860,0414.156
