book; print

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Object Type: book; print
Museum number: 1895,0122.593
Title: Series: Apocalypse
Description: The hymn in adoration of the lamb; in Heaven a lamb within a bright sun-like circle, below a multitude of people holding palms and adoring the lamb; in the foreground St John converses with one of the Elders, Latin text in letterpress on the verso. One of 15 illustrations of the Latin 1511 edition. c.1496-7 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer
School/style: German
Production date: 1496-1497
Production place: Published in: Nuremberg
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut
Dimensions: Height: 393 millimetres; Width: 282 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is the fourteenth plate from an edition printed by Hieronymus Höltzel, Nuremberg, 1511. For further information see 1895-1-22-580 (Meder 163.b).
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (176) (1511 Latin edition); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.128.67); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.262.6); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.124); Paisey 2002 / Catalogue of German printed books to 1900 (74)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: revelations
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Donated by: William Mitchell
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: N Foucquart
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0122.593

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