Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
Patrons' Permanent Fund and Print Purchase Fund (Horace Gallatin and Lessing J. Rosenwald)
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Dimensions
block: 39.5 × 28.5 cm (15 9/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
sheet: 45.7 × 31.5 cm (18 × 12 3/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2008.109.5
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder 1932, no. 167
Associated Artworks
See all 16 artworks
Title Page
Albrecht Dürer
1498
The Apocalypse of Saint John
Albrecht Dürer
1498
The Martyrdom of Saint John
Albrecht Dürer
1498
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. Carl Gaa [1871-c.1925], Mannheim; (his sale, Boerner, 6 May 1926, no. 436); acquired by Félix Somary [1881-1956], Zurich, via Joseph Meder; by descent to heirs of Somary; Gustav Laube; by descent to the heirs of Laube; (August Laube, Zurich); purchased by NGA, 2008.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2020
Visions of the End, McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, Knoxville, TN, 2020, no cat.
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. 115.
2009
Robison, Andrew. "Albrecht Dürer, Apocalypse with Images." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 40 (Spring 2009): 27-29, repro.
Inscriptions
in margin at lower left, in graphite: B. 64; on verso, at bottom center, in graphite: B. 64; on verso, in margin at upper right, in black ink: [undecipherable] Israel
Markings
verso, at lower right, stamped in purple ink: Felix Somary [Lugt 4384)
Wikidata ID
Q5980742