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DAY & FABER master drawings

    Augsburg School, c. 1550

    An Angel chains the dragon

    Description:

    gouache and watercolour: 150 x 292 cm

    SOLD

    Provenance:

    Private Collection, Germany, until 2015

    Note:

    Revelation 20: 1 - 3
    [1] And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
    [2] And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
    [3] And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

    One of four missing pages from the "Augsburg Wunderzeichenbuch", previously with Day & Faber and now in a Private Collection, New York.
    For a full description of the book please see the EXHIBITIONS page on this website.

    An Angel chains the dragon