The Seven Trumpets
(1496-1497)
from the 1511 Latin edition of The Apocalypse

Albrecht DÜRER

Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium

woodcut

Measurements

39.4 × 27.9 cm (image; left border cropped) 39.6 × 28.0 cm (irregular sheet)

Catalogue/s Raisonné

B.68; M.170; Holl.170 (3); K.112; S.W.41; T.133; P.188

Inscription

With monogram

Accession Number

1278.504-3

Departments

International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Gallery location

Not on display

Subjects (general)

Human Figures Religion and Mythology

Subjects (specific)

angels (spirits) Apocalypse (New Testament narrative) destruction (process) disasters God the Father (Christian character) punishing stars (motifs) trumpets (aerophones)

Movements

Renaissance

Watermarks

Watermark Form: Crowned Tower with Flower
: Meder 259, Briquet 15863 (found in document dated 1473 in Augsbourg, Germany). This watermark represents the Ravensburg Coat of Arms. This paper was probably made in Ravensburg, Baden-Würtemberg where the second oldest paper mill in Germany was founded c. 1393–1394.
Completeness: partial
Chain Line Interval: 55 mm
Laid Line Frequency: 7 per cm
Placement and spacing of wires: 167 x 8 [ 40 ] x 8
Wire Side: recto
Radiograph taken from: verso

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The Seven Trumpets
(1496-1497)
from the 1511 Latin edition of The Apocalypse

Albrecht DÜRER