print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1909,0403.46
- Title
- Series: Apocalypse
- Description
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The Angel locking the Dragon in the Bottomless Pit for a thousand years. 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: 162 millimetres
-
Width: 129 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Lit: T. Falk, 'Hans Burgkmair. Das graphische Werk', exh. cat., Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Augsburg, Augsburg 1973, no.144; G.Bartrum in 'The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come', exh. cat., BM, London 1999, no.40.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
1999/2000 Dec-Apr, London, BM, 'The Apocalypse', no.40
- 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
- 1909,0403.46
