The Four Avenging Angels of Euphrates
Woodcut
ca 1498 (printed)
ca 1498 (printed)
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Woodcut
Object details
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| Title | The Four Avenging Angels of Euphrates (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | wooduct on laid paper |
| Brief description | 'The Four Avenging Angels of Euphrates', by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528); number nine of sixteen illustrations to the 1498 edition of the Apocalypse of Saint John, with German text; woodcut |
| Physical description | Woodcut |
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| Marks and inscriptions | AD (Signed with monogram of Albrecht Durer) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Alice G. E. Carthew |
| Object history | This print is from the edition of 1498 with German text, the first and only edition in German. A Latin edition was also produced in 1498 and again in 1511. |
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| Accession number | E.720-1940 |
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| Record created | September 26, 2008 |
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