About the Artwork
The Beast with Two Horns Like a Lamb
between 1496 and 1497
Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
German
Unknown
Woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed to image): 15 3/8 × 11 1/8 inches (39.1 × 28.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S412
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, on block, lower center: [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, on verso: [text printed in Latin]
Watermark: Meder 127 (flower with triangle)
Provenance
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)
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Albrecht Dürer, The Beast with Two Horns Like a Lamb, between 1496 and 1497, woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S412.
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