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Title
Apocalypse
Description
English: The Virgin appearing to St John; St John with an eagle to his right, a book on his knees, and an inkwell and quill-case to his left; on the right the Virgin, wears a crown of stars and holds the infant Christ, with two lines title inscription and Latin letterpress on verso. Title-page to the 1511 edition. 1511
Woodcut
Depicted people Representation of: St John the Evangelist
Date 1511
date QS:P571,+1511-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 184 millimetres (excluding title)

Height: 321 millimetres (including cut title)
Width: 183 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1895,0122.580
Notes

This is the first plate from the second edition of the series printed, according to Paisey, by Hieronymus Höltzel, Nuremberg, 1511. It consists of a title-page and 15 illustrations, all but the last with Latin text in letterpress on the verso. This copy is bound together with the two series 'Life of the Virgin' (1895,0122.641 through 660) and 'Large Passion' (1895,0122.607 through 618), each title-page is signed by a very early owner, N Foucquart, and the album has the bookplate of W Mitchell. CD: with two watermarks Ha. 27 and 28.

Further lit: Meder, p,277.X. third edition with Latin text; F. Carey (ed), 'The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come', exh.cat. BM, 1999, p. 130, no.5; G.Bartrum, 'Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy' BM exh.cat. 2002, no.118a (open at title-page of the 'Large Passion')
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-580
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