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The Fifth Angel Sounding the Trumpet, the Bottomless Pit and the Plague of the Monstruous Locusts

In Dat Nye Testament, Martin Luther (translator), Magdeburg: Hans Walther (printer), 1545 (Stuttgart, WLB), fol. CLVv

fol. CLVv (24 of 38 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Monogrammist MS (printmaker attr.), The Fifth Angel Sounding the Trumpet, the Bottomless Pit and the Plague of the Monstruous Locusts (Lufft; Severin; Szarfenberger) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius)

Actors

Hans Walther (fl. ca 1530 - 1560) printer : 1545
Monogrammist MS (fl. ca 1530 - ca 1550) printmaker attr. : 1532 - 1534

Places

Magdeburg production place : 1545

Design

Monogrammist MS (printmaker attr.), The Fifth Angel Sounding the Trumpet, the Bottomless Pit and the Plague of the Monstruous Locusts (Lufft; Severin; Szarfenberger) (Cracow, Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Collegium Maius) Part of Set of Bible illustrations (Lufft; Severin; Melantrich; Walther; Szarfenberger; Siebeneicher; Drukarnia Akademicka; Schedel) ◼

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Iconography description

The fifth angel sounds the trumpet, the bottomless pit and the plague of the monstruous locusts (Iconclass: 73G325)

Functional context

Revelation (Bible)

References

Matrices' graphic catalogue entries

Muczkowski: 92

Web resources

external link

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-10-12 18:42)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2025-10-12 18:42)