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The Angel with the Key to Bottomless Pit

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Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Grace M. Pugh 1985

Albrecht Dürer (Artist)

Prints Keys Angels

1511

Title: The Angel with the Key to Bottomless Pit

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Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: at the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless

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