The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals
c. 1497
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
block: 39.2 x 28.3 cm (15 7/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
sheet: 39.4 x 28.4 cm (15 1/2 x 11 3/16 in.) -
Accession
2005.145.12
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 168
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kennedy Galleries, New York); Mrs. Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased May, 1968; gift to NGA, 2005.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1932
Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 116.
Inscriptions
lower center in block: AD (in monogram); verso: German text; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: AR 508; by later hand, lower center in graphite: B 65 M168
Wikidata ID
Q18338537