Illustration: 73G312x73G313x6

General

Title opening of the fifth seal: white robes are given to (the souls of) the martyrs under the altar, opening of the sixth seal: a great earthquake, the sun turns black, the moon red as blood, and the stars fall on earth; mankind hiding in caves
Type Illustration
Sizes 112x87
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Artist Christoffel (2) van Sichem (after {Albrecht *Drer})
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1657
Iconclass 73G312,73G313
Iconclass description opening of the fifth seal: white robes are given to (the souls of) the martyrs under the altar, opening of the sixth seal: a great earthquake, the sun turns black, the moon red as blood, and the stars fall on earth; mankind hiding in caves
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Appearances

Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (Revelation) 2 Pp4v
Show scan: Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (Revelation) vol.2 p.Pp4v
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.a

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Scan: Utrecht UB MAZ 2176 (Revelation) vol.2 p.Pp4v
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.b

References

Literature references

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut 1977 Chapter 2 An Introduction to the Woodcuts of the Seventeenth Century, with a discussion of the German woodcut Broadsides of the Seventeenth Century (by Ingeborg Lehmann-Haupt), New York

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut 1983 Christoffel van Sichem A Family of Dutch 17th Century Woodcut Artists, in: Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Vol. XXVII, Christoffel (1) van Sichem to Herman Specht, pp. 274-306

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