Illustration: 73G491x73G4931x73G4933x73G531x1
General
| Title | the scarlet woman, the whore of Babylon; she is usually sitting on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns, an angel announces the fall of Babylon, a mighty angel casting a great (mill)stone into the sea, the horseman whose name was Faithful and True (Christ) with his heavenly army |
| Type | Illustration |
| Sizes | 112x75 |
| Material | Woodcut |
| Colour | Black |
| Artist | Christoffel (2) van Sichem (after {Albrecht *Drer}) |
| Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra | 1657 |
| Iconclass | 73G491,73G4931,73G4933,73G531 |
| Iconclass description | the scarlet woman, the whore of Babylon; she is usually sitting on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns, an angel announces the fall of Babylon, a mighty angel casting a great (mill)stone into the sea, the horseman whose name was Faithful and True (Christ) with his heavenly army |
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Scan: Utrecht UB MAZ 2176 (Revelation) vol.2 p.Qq4r |
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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