book; print

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Object Type: book; print
Museum number: 1895,0122.544
Title: Series: Apocalypse
Description: The martyrdom of St John; with the saint being tortured in a vat of boiling oil on the right and the Roman emperor Domitian sitting on his throne on the left and German text in letterpress on the verso. One of 15 illustrations of the German edition of the series bound in vellum. 1498 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer; Printed by: Anton Koberger
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Production date: 1498
Production place: Published in: Nuremberg
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Dimensions: Height: 394 millimetres; Width: 285 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is the second woodcut from a bound set of the German edition of of Dürer's Apocalypse.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (164) (1498 German edition); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.127.61); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.260.1); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.112)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1971 BM, Dürer, no.55
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Acquisition date: 1895
Acquisition notes: For a fuller description of the provenance of this set, see 1895,0122.543
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0122.544
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