book; print

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Object Type: book; print
Museum number: 1895,0122.548
Title: Series: Apocalypse
Description: The opening of the fifth and sixth seals; above, an angel dispenses white robes to the martyrs, and underneath, a shower of flaming stars falls on the innocent on the left and the guilty on the right, with German letterpress text on the verso. One of 15 illustrations of the 1498 German edition. c.1497-8 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer; Printed by: Anton Koberger
School/style: German
Production date: 1498
Production place: Published in: Nuremberg
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut
Dimensions: Height: 396 millimetres; Width: 284 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is the sixth woodcut from a bound set of the German edition of Dürer's Apocalypse.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (168) (1498 German edition); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.128.65); 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.116)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: revelations
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Donated by: William Mitchell
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: John Towneley
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: 1895,0122.548
Conservation: Treatment: 15 Sep 1993

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