print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: E,3.124
Title: Series: Apocalypse
Description: The four angels of Death; above, God in Heaven is holding two trumpets, in the foreground the four angels are attacking with their swords a knight, pope, and ordinary people,and Latin letterpress text on the verso. One impression from the 1511 Latin edition of a series of 15 woodcuts. c 1496-8 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer
School/style: German
Production date: 1496-1498
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut
Dimensions: Height: 392 millimetres; Width: 279 millimetres
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Curator's comments: From the 1511 edition with Latin text.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (171) (1511 Latin edition); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.128.69) (1511 Latin edition); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.261.2) (1511 Latin edition); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.119) (1511 Latin edition)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: revelations
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Sir Hans Sloane (with Philipe's oval stamp and the initials HS)
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: E,3.124

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