print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: E,2.277
Title: Series: Apocalypse
Description: St John kneeling before Christ and the twenty-four elders; underneath, a landscape with a water-mill, with Latin letterpress text on the verso. One impression from the 1511 Latin edition of a series of 15 woodcuts c.1496 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer
School/style: German
Production date: 1496
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut
Dimensions: Height: 393 millimetres; Width: 277 millimetres
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Curator's comments: From the 1511 Latin edition. Watermark: triangle surmounted by flower (Meder 127).
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (166) (1511 Latin edition); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.128.63) (1511 Latin edition); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.261.2) (cf, here 1511 Latin edition); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.114) (1511 Latin edition)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: revelations
Associated names: Representation of: St John the Evangelist
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,2.277

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