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Johann Jakob Ulrich, Wine Barrels Loaded onto a Sailing Barge at Vevey, c. 1850, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2010.35.1

Wine Barrels Loaded onto a Sailing Barge at Vevey

Johann Jakob Ulrich · c. 1850 · watercolor over graphite on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2010.35.1

Franz Kaisermann, View from Tivoli across the Tiber Valley at Sunset, 1813, watercolor over graphite on laid paper, Rudolf and Lore Heinemann Fund, 2002.71.1

View from Tivoli across the Tiber Valley at Sunset

Franz Kaisermann · 1813 · watercolor over graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2002.71.1

Heinrich Rieter, Forest Treetops Struck by Light, c. 1800, black and white chalk with stumping on blue paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 2012.86.1

Forest Treetops Struck by Light

Heinrich Rieter · c. 1800 · black and white chalk with stumping on blue paper ·  Accession ID  2012.86.1

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The Apocalypse of Saint John

Albrecht Dürer · 1498 · complete set of 16 woodcuts on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2008.109.1-16

Albrecht Dürer, Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon, 1498, woodcut on laid paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Print Purchase Fund (Horace Gallatin and Lessing J. Rosenwald), 2008.109.12

Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon

Albrecht Dürer · 1498 · woodcut on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2008.109.12

Created with black lines printed on cream-white paper, a dense crowd of men and women gathers to our left facing a woman riding a dragon-like creature with seven heads to our right, while angels fly overhead in this vertical woodcut. To our right, the woman rides the creature side-saddle, with both legs facing us, but she turns her torso to face the crowd to our left. She holds up a tall, ornate, lidded chalice with her right hand, farther from us, and her other hand rests in her lap. The woman has delicate features, seen almost in profile, and ringlets frame her face. The rest of her hair is pulled up under a jeweled crown, and she wears a pearl necklace. Her bodice is belted at the waist before falling past her feet. Her sleeves are off the shoulder and come to her elbows, and ornaments there could be jewels and more pearls. The creature she rides has talons for the front and back legs, with a plume of feathers and a tapering, snake-like tail at the back. Wings at the beast’s shoulders might be folded under the woman. Each of the seven faces of the creature has a long, serpentine neck with the head of a different animal with horns added, including a goat, bird, camel, and other imaginary animals. To our left, the group is made up of six men and one woman, with the tops of about a dozen hats indicating a crowd beyond. One man stands with his back to us, wearing a turban, a long, fur-lined cloak, and chains and jewels around his neck. Facing us, another man is cleanshaven with a double chin, and he wears a hat cocked to one side. Others wear a long floppy cap, a feathered cap, or monk’s robes. Densely packed slivers of faces and hats are jumbled together beyond, and the spiked blade of a halberd rises above the crowd. The group and creature seem to stand near the edge of a body of water, with plants and rocks scattered around their feet. The water stretches into the distance beyond the creature to a town being consumed by flames, to our right. Two masted ships and a rowboat float in the water near the shoreline, which leads back to distant mountains. Two winged angels with flowing, curly hair appear within coiling, twisting clouds in the sky above. One gestures toward the scene below with arms spread wide and the other holds a disk-like millstone. Also in the sky, to our left and smaller in scale, an armored man riding a horse raises a sword high overhead. Dozens of faces create a second crowd disappearing into the cloud banks beyond the rider. The artist signed the work with a D tucked into the legs of an A at the lower center.
Albrecht Dürer, The Whore of Babylon, 1498, woodcut on laid paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Print Purchase Fund (Horace Gallatin and Lessing J. Rosenwald), 2008.109.15

The Whore of Babylon

Albrecht Dürer · 1498 · woodcut on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2008.109.15

Johann Heinrich Meyer, Italian Landscape with a Pair of Shepherds, 1795, etching on wove paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.377

Italian Landscape with a Pair of Shepherds

Johann Heinrich Meyer · 1795 · etching on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2012.92.377

Albrecht Dürer, The Seven Angels with the Trumpets, 1498, woodcut on laid paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Print Purchase Fund (Horace Gallatin and Lessing J. Rosenwald), 2008.109.8

The Seven Angels with the Trumpets

Albrecht Dürer · 1498 · woodcut on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2008.109.8

Albrecht Dürer, The Four Avenging Angels, 1498, woodcut on laid paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Print Purchase Fund (Horace Gallatin and Lessing J. Rosenwald), 2008.109.9

The Four Avenging Angels

Albrecht Dürer · 1498 · woodcut on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2008.109.9

Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen, 1498, woodcut on laid paper, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Print Purchase Fund (Horace Gallatin and Lessing J. Rosenwald), 2008.109.5

The Four Horsemen

Albrecht Dürer · 1498 · woodcut on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2008.109.5