The Whore of Babylon

Details

• Title

  The Whore of Babylon

• Artist/maker

  Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) (printmaker)

• Associated people

  Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) (publisher)

• Associated place

  Asia › Iraq › Babil Governorate › Babylon (subject)

• Date

  c. 1496 - 1497

• Material and technique

  recto: woodcut
  verso: letterpress
  both with ruled guidelines in brown ink, on laid paper

• Object type

  visual representation › print

• Dimensions

  39.4 x 28 cm (height x width)
  sheet 40.6 x 29.6 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA.RS.ED.125

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