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Albrecht Dürer: The Four Witches  wikidata:Q7735048 reasonator:Q7735048
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Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)  wikidata:Q5580 s:en:Author:Albrecht Dürer q:en:Albrecht Dürer
 
Albrecht Dürer
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Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg
Work period 1484 Edit this at Wikidata–1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
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artist QS:P170,Q5580
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The Four Witches Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"The Four Witches Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"The Four Witches Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lsl,"Štiri čarovnice"
label QS:Lja,"四人の魔女"
label QS:Lfr,"Quatre femmes nues"
label QS:Luk,"Чотири відьми"
label QS:Lnl,"Vier heksen"
label QS:Lpt,"As quatro feiticeiras"
label QS:Les,"Las cuatro brujas"
label QS:Lhe,"ארבע המכשפות"
label QS:Lde,"Vier nackte Frauen"
Object type copper engraving print Edit this at Wikidata
Genre nude Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: The Four Witches, an engraving by Albrecht Dürer

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  • this is the earliest dated print by Dürer
  • A devil appears on the lower left, and there are a human skull and a leg bone on the floor.
  • The initials O.G.H. on the sphere above are believed to stand for O Gott hüte (Oh God save us).
  • Albrect Dürer's initials on the center bottom
Depicted people devil Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1497
date QS:P571,+1497-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving
Dimensions height: 190 mm (7.48 in); width: 131 mm (5.15 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,190U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,131U174789
institution QS:P195,Q478695
Accession number
StN2127
Place of creation Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
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  • 1497 / O.G.H. Edit this at Wikidata
[O Gott hüte] [Oh God, save us]
Notes Witches and wicked bodies exhibition at the British Museum, 25 September 2014 – 11 January 2015, Photography was permitted
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Author George Tsiagalakis
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Camera location51° 31′ 10.79″ N, 0° 07′ 45.95″ W  Heading=160° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
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