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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21425
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Apocalypse
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Revelation of Saint John the Divine
Series/Book Title: The Apocalypse
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1497
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/255254

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodcuts accompanied by texts typographically printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, bound in a 19th-century vellum binding in imitation of the 16th century
Technique
Woodcut
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on verso of front fly leaf, brown ink, floowed by the current accession number in graphie: 1755 / Gift of Dr. D. W. Ross / June 6, 1919 / M21425
  • inscription: on inner side of the cardboard lining of the vellum covered back cover, graphite: Collated Perfect[?] / [illeg. name] 30 June/79

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Bernard Quaritch, London], sold; to Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, 1884, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1919

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
with the Latin text
Edition
1511
Standard Reference Number
Bartsch 60-75, Meder 163-178

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
M21425
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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