The Beast with Two Horns Like a Lamb, from the Apocalypse series
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
about 1496-1497; published 1498
Woodcut on laid paper
First Latin edition
Impression: 15 5/8 × 11 1/8 in. (39.7 × 28.3 cm)
Sheet: 15 13/16 × 11 1/4 in. (40.1 × 28.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Philip Hofer
PR.939.3.1
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in block, lower center: AD [in monogram]
Course History
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
HIST 96, Topics in Medieval History, Walter Simons, Winter 2013
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
HIST 96.31, The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages Reconsidered: Art, Artists, and Cultural Change in the ‘Northern Renaissance,’ 1350–1575, Walter Simons, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
Art I, Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 21, 1975-January 11, 1976.
Durer and Related Works, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1971.
Provenance
Collected by Philip Hofer (1898-1984), Cambridge, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1939.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 74; Meder 175 [text on verso]; Knappe 163; Panofsky page 294
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