Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, between 1497 and 1498

  • Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528

Woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed to image edge): 15 3/8 × 11 1/8 inches (39.1 × 28.3 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S405

Signed, on block, lower center: [artist's monogram]

Inscribed, on verso: [Latin inscription]

July 1886, (Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan. USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 1.

Albrecht Dürer, Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, between 1497 and 1498, woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S405.