PrintsNetherlandish16th century

The Beast from the Bottomless Pit / The Apocalyptic Woman and the Seven-headed Dragon / The Adoration of the Beast with Ten Horns and Seven Heads / The Adoration of the Lamb on Mount Zion

before 1585

Artists

Adriaen CollaertArtist

Jan SnellinckArtist after

Gerard de JodePublisher

Classification

Prints

Technique

Engraving

Medium

Engraving printed in black ink with added transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gold on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream

Culture

Netherlandish

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

sheet: 27 x 36.4 cm (10 5/8 x 14 5/16 in.) upper left: 8.1 x 7.4 cm (3 3/16 x 2 15/16 in.) upper right: 8.2 x 7.6 cm (3 1/4 x 3 in.) lower left: 8.3 x 7.8 cm (3 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.) lower right: 8.4 x 7.7 cm (3 5/16 x 3 1/16 in.)

Provenance

[Paul Prouté, Paris, France, sold]; to Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Concord, MA, later Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2011.