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Object Type: print
Museum number: E,2.164
Description: Cain half-kneeling, raising an axe over his head and restraining Abel beneath him. 1511 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer
School/style: German
Production date: 1511
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut
Dimensions: Height: 116 millimetres; Width: 82 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (106); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.116.1); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.303.114.a); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.224)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: old testament
Associated names: Representation of: Abel; Representation of: Cain
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Joseph Nollekens; Bequeathed through: Francis Douce
Acquisition date: 1834
Acquisition notes: Bequeathed by Joseph Nollekens, subject to a life interest to Francis Douce, 1834.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: E,2.164
Conservation: Treatment: 15 Feb 2000

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