The Angel with the Key of the Bottomless Pit, between 1496 and 1497

  • Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528

Woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed to image): 15 1/2 × 11 1/8 inches (39.4 × 28.3 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S415

Signed, on block, lower center: [artist's monogram]

July 1886, (Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan. USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Albrecht Dürer, The Angel with the Key of the Bottomless Pit, between 1496 and 1497, woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S415.