print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1909,0403.37
- Title
- Series: Apocalypse
- Description
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The dragon and the two witnesses; standing in foreground, St John measuring the temple in left background. From a series of 21 woodcuts of the Apocalypse for Martin Luther's translation of the New Testament (Augsburg: S. Otmar, 1523). 1523
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1523
- Dimensions
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Height: 163 millimetres
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Width: 128 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See T. Falk, 'Hans Burgkmair. Das graphische Werk', exh. cat., Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Augsburg, Augsburg 1973, no.137.
Cf. F. Carey, 'The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come', exh. cat., BM, London 1999, nos 30-41.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: New Testament (Augsburg 1523)
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Acquisition notes
- 1909,0403.1 to 57 all came from the W L Schreiber sale, and were bought by Obach & Co. They were then exchanged with the BM for duplicate prints.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1909,0403.37