About the Artwork
Virgin Appearing to Saint John
between 1510 and 1511
Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
German
Unknown
Woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed): 13 1/2 × 8 5/8 inches (34.3 × 21.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S400
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower center: [artist's monogram]
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Watermark: [crowned tower] (Meder 259)
Provenance
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)
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Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 113.
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Albrecht Dürer, Virgin Appearing to Saint John, between 1510 and 1511, woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S400.
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