Terms and conditions of use
St Michael fighting the dragon
(c. 1498)
from The Apocalypse series, 1511 Latin edition
- Medium
- woodcut
- Measurements
- 39.2 × 28.2 cm (image and sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Bartsch 72
- Inscription
- printed in ink (in image) l.c.: AD (monogram)
stamped in red ink l.c.: AV (monogram) (in a circle) (Antoine Vivenel; Lugt 190)
stamped in purple ink on reverse l.l.: NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA (in oval) (Lugt 1932g)
stamped (inverted) in ink on reverse l.l.: Felton Bequest
stamped in purple ink on reverse l.c.: NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA (in oval) (Lugt 1932g) - Accession Number
- 1278.506-3
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Religion and Mythology Violence
- Subjects (specific)
- angels (spirits) archangels combat creatures demons dragons Michael, Archangel (Abrahamic religion character) Saint Michael the Archangel Slaying the Dragon (Abrahamic religions narrative)
- Movements
- Renaissance
Watermarks
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- Watermark Form
-
Flower with Triangle
- Meder 127, Briquet 6485 (found in documents dated 1471 in Augsburg, Germany, 1498 in Nuremberg, Germany and 1525 in Ingolstadt, Germany)
- Completeness
- complete
- Chain Line Interval
- 39-41 mm
- Laid Line Frequency
- 8 per cm
- Placement and spacing of wires
- 143 x 40 [ 1 I 40 I 2 ] x ?
- Wire Side
- unknown
- Radiograph taken from
- recto
