The Babylonian Whore

probably c. 1496/1498

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to block): 38.8 × 28 cm (15 1/4 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3566

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 177

  • Series Title

    The Apocalypse

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

acquired 1797 by Giuseppe Storck [1776-1836], Milan (Lugt 2319). unidentified collector's mark (Lugt 2509). Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague, Bohemia (Lugt 2773). Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965], Cambridge, MA (Lugt 2091). (Harlow, Keppel, Co., New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1942; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1945

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 25.

1968

  • Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.

1971

  • Prints by Albrecht Durer, Birmingham Museum of Art, 1971.

1973

  • The Apocalypse, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, 1973, no. 18.

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. 125.

Inscriptions

Verso, at center, in brown ink by a later hand: G. Storck a Milan 1797 / [?]M; verso, at center, above Lann collector's mark, in graphite by a later hand: 8189; lower left center, in graphite by a later hand: Superb proof before the text on "Reichsappel" paper. Lanna coll.; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: 3322 / a64253 / 3319-25

Watermarks

imperial orb

Wikidata ID

Q18338545

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