The Beast with Two Horns Like a Lamb, from the Apocalypse series
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528about 1496-1497; published 1498
Woodcut on laid paper
First Latin edition of 1498
Impression: 11 1/4 × 15 3/8 in. (28.6 × 39.1 cm)
Sheet: 15 9/16 × 11 1/4 in. (39.5 × 28.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Philip Hofer
PR.939.3.3
Geography/Culture
Europe, Germany
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Signed, in block, lower center: AD [in monogram]; Latin text on verso
Course History
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
Exhibition History
Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.
Printing as Memory, Special Collections, Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 1992-November 30, 1992.
Late Medieval and Renaissance Prints, Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8-December 15, 1974.
Harrington Gallery, Art 2, Turrill/Zemel, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-February 12, 1990.
Durer and Friends, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 30, 1979-January 6, 1980.
Art I, South Lobby, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November-December 1973.
Art I, Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 21, 1975-January 11, 1976.
1500, Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November-December 1972.
Provenance
Collected by Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1939.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 74; Meder 175; Knappe 163
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