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And I John, Saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, Coming Down from God Out of Heaven
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Odilon Redon and Ambroise Vollard

And I John, Saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, Coming Down from God Out of Heaven

1899

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And I John, Saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, Coming Down from God Out of Heaven

Odilon Redon and Ambroise Vollard

And I John, Saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, Coming Down from God Out of Heaven

And I John, Saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, Coming Down from God Out of Heaven

1899

Physical Qualities Tusche and crayon lithograph with scraping on chine collé, Sheet: 565 x 235 mm. (22 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.) Image: 295 x 235 mm. (11 5/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plate XI from the portfolio "Apocalypse of Saint John (Apocalypse de Saint-Jean)"
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1951.67.7
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 right: "OR"; on sheet, below image, at left, printed in black ink: "Et moi Jean, je vis la sainte cité la nouvelle Jérusalem, / qui descendait du Ciel d'auprès de Dieu."

Markings: None

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