book; print

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Object Type: book; print
Museum number: 1895,0122.551
Title: Series: Apocalypse
Description: The four angels of Death; above, God in Heaven is holding two trumpets, in the foreground the four angels are attacking with their swords a knight, pope, and ordinary people, with German letterpress text on the verso. One of 15 illustrations of the 1498 German edition. c.1496-8 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: 398 millimetres; Width: 287 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is the ninth woodcut from a bound set of the German edition of Dürer's Apocalypse.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (171) (1498 German edition); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.128.69); 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.119)
Location: Not on display
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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: 1895,0122.551
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