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Albrecht Dürer

The Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit, from "The Apocalypse"

1497–98
Woodcut
44.1 × 30.6 cm (17.4 × 12 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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