Title(s):
The Adoration of the Lamb The Apocalypse
Maker:
Dürer, Albrecht; printmaker; German artist, 1471-1528
Category:
Name:
print
Date:
circa 1511
School/Style:
German
Production
Note:
Latin Edition of 1511. Second State
Technique:
woodcut
Material(s):
black carbon ink; medium
laid paper; support
Dimension(s):
height, image, 390, mm
width, image, 280, mm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1873; Kerrich, Richard Edward
Provenance:
Collection of Rev. Thomas Kerrich; by descent to Rev. Richard Edward Kerrich
Notes:
From the 1511 Latin edition of the Apocalypse with the letterpress text of chapters twenty and twenty-one on the reverse. Based on the woodcut at this point in the sequence in the Koberger Bible of 1483, this clearly illustrates the events in chapter seven, immediately following The Four Angels staying the Winds. However, Dürer actually placed it much later in his book (following The Beast with Seven Heads and the Beast with Two Horns), perhaps prompted by a similar image described in chapter fourteen: 'And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads...and they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth...'(14:1-4).
Acquisition Credit:
Bequeathed by the Rev. R. E. Kerrich 1872 (received 1873)
Inscription(s):
inscription; verso; printed; Latin verse
monogram; image lower centre; printed; AD
Alternative
Number(s):
Bartsch; 67
Illustrated Bartsch; 67
Illustrated Bartsch Commentary; .267
Meder; 176
Hollstein (German); 176 (3)
Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum; 124
Exhibition(s):
Engravings and woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). 1950-01 - 1950-03
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)
Exhibited at The Fitzwilliam Museum : September 1914. 1914-09
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Exhibited at The Fitzwilliam Museum : Easter Term 1911. 1911
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Related Object(s):
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P.3302-R; The Apocalypse, Title Page.
P.3303-R; The Torture of St John the Evangelist
P.3304-R; The Vision of the Seven Candlesticks
P.3051-R; The Four horsemen of the Apocalypse
P.3305-R; St. John before God and the Elders
P.3306-R; The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals
P.3307-R; The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals
P.3308-R; Four Angels Holding the Winds
P.3311-R; The Adoration of the Lamb
P.3312-R; The Seven Angels with the Trumpets
P.3313-R; The Seven Angels with the Trumpets
P.3315-R; The Four Avenging Angels
P.3314-R; The Four Avenging Angels
P.3316-R; St John Devouring the Book
P.23-1983; St John Devouring the Book
P.3317-R; The Apocalyptic Woman
P.3318-R; St. Michael Fighting the Dragon
P.3319-R; The Whore of Babylon
P.3320-R; The Beast with Two Horns like a Lamb
P.3321-R; The Beast with Two Horns like a Lamb
P.3322-R; The Angel showing John the New Jerusalem
Accession:
Object Number: P.3310-R
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 99001; input: 2004-06-04; modified: 2013-01-04)
(Picture Cabinet reference : 703015)
Permanent
Identifier:
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