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Albrecht Dürer
The Vision of the Seven Candlesticks, ca. 1498
woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper
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Artist Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528
Title
  • The Vision of the Seven Candlesticks
  • Johannes erblickt die sieben Leuchter (alternate title)
  • Die Apokalypse | The Apocalypse (series title)
Date ca. 1498
Medium woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed to image edge): 15 1/2 × 11 1/8 inches (39.4 × 28.3 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S402
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, on block, lower center: [artist's monogram]
Marks Watermark: Meder 259 (crowned tower)
Inscriptions 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.