SAINT JOHN BEFORE GOD AND THE ELDERS
Sheet 3 from the series “The Apocalypse”
Bottom: a monogram MF with a cross
An inscription along the top margin:
Die ander figure begreiftt das illi und das v capital
390×273 mm
Handbooks:
Impression in the Museum collections
Watermark:
is unclear because the sheet is mounted on dense paper
Provenance:
State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924
Inv. Г-2499
Comments:
the impression is of original size and turned in original direction, without Dürer's monogram, with German text. Hieronymus Greff’s series was published in 1502 in Strasburg
