Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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Gospel According to Mark, Gospel According to Matthew, Religious genre, Images of Saints, Saint John the Divine (Saint John the Evangelist, Saint John the Apostle)

THE TORTURE OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST

1497–1498

Sheet 1 from the series “The Apocalypse”

Story:

Gospels according to Matthew 4,21, 27, 56; to Mark 1, 20

With monogram

387×279 mm

Handbooks:

B. VII, 61; M. 164; С. 111; TIB. X, 261

Impression in the Museum collections

1498

Watermark:
a great orb, a line and a star

Provenance:

State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-2204

Comments:

Meder dates this watermark 1497–1520. According to him, the impressions with such watermarks were among the very first ones, made before the 1498 edition with texts on the back (М. 164, I)