Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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ST. MICHAEL FIGHTING THE DRAGON

1498

Sheet 12 from the series “The Apocalypse”

With monogram

Woodcut

393×283 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

1511

Watermark:
a triangle with a six-petal flower

Provenance:

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

Inv. Г-2219

Comments:

the impression is with Latin text on the back; from the 1511 edition (M. 174, III)

Other impressions in the Museum collections:

Inv. Г-2220, on paper without watermarks, without text on the back. The good quality of the impression permits to class it among the first ones, made before the edition with texts; but the sheet is heavily damaged and many parts are missing