Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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THE FOUR ANGELS STAYING THE WINDS

1498

Sheet 6 from the series “The Apocalypse”

With monogram

Woodcut

394×285 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

1511

Watermark:
a tower with a crown and a flower

Provenance:

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

Inv. Г-2210

Comments:

a brownish impression with Latin text on the back; from the 1511 edition (М. 169, III)

Other impressions in the Museum collections:

Inv. Г-2211, on paper without watermarks and without text on the back. The good quality of the impression permits to classify it among the first ones, made before the edition with texts; but the sheet is heavily damaged and many parts are missing