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And I Saw an Angel Coming Down from Heaven, Having the Key of the Bottomless Pit and a Great Chain in His Hand
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Odilon Redon and Ambroise Vollard

And I Saw an Angel Coming Down from Heaven, Having the Key of the Bottomless Pit and a Great Chain in His Hand

1899

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And I Saw an Angel Coming Down from Heaven, Having the Key of the Bottomless Pit and a Great Chain in His Hand

1899

Physical Qualities Tusche and crayon lithograph with scraping on chine collé, Sheet: 560 x 422 mm. (22 1/16 x 16 5/8 in.) Image: 305 x 235 mm. (12 x 9 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate VIII from the portfolio "Apocalypse of Saint John (Apocalypse de Saint-Jean)"
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1951.67.10
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.

Victor Carlson, Baltimore Museum of Art, "French Illustrated Books of the 19th and 20th Century," 15 October - 14 January 1967 (?). no. 61.

Inscribed: In stone, at lower center: "OR"; on sheet, below image, at left, printed in black ink: "Après cela, je vis descendre du ciel un ange qui avait la clef de l'abîme"

Markings: None

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