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Apocalypse
Description
English: The pope and a Sultan as Demons dragging their followers into Hell; the demon with papal tiara pulling clerics towards hell, the sultan with turban pulling Turks. On higher ground Christ with followers of the true faith. From a series of woodcut satirical illustrations intended for Laurentius Agricola's translation of Sebastian Meyer's commentary on the Apocalypse .
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Depicted people Illustration to: Sebastian Meyer
Date circa 1546
date QS:P571,+1546-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
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Height: 234 millimetres

Width: 162 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1895,0122.45
Notes

This print belongs to a set of polemical prints on the Apocalpse and the Catholic church intended for illustration to Laurentius Agricola's translation of Sebastian Meyer's commentary on the Apocalypse, which was never published in a complete form. The BM possesses a set of 48 related woodcuts which were bound together for the '1637' collector, Pieter Spiering Silfvercrona (see 1911,0708.103 through 150; in P&D library 158.c.1). For further information and concordances, see 1911,0708.103 and 1867,0713.107.

Lit: P.Roettig, Reformation als Apokalypse: Die Holzschnitte von Matthias Gerung im Codex germanicus 6592 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München, Bern, 1991, no 23 b; G.Bartrum in 'The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come, exh.cat. London, BM, 1999, no. 61. On the 1637 album, see Ilja M. Veldman, "Portrait of an art collector: Pieter Spiering van Silvercroon" Simiolus 38:4 (2015/16): 246.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-45
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