Angels Reaping and Treading the Wine Press
Date: 16th Century
Medium: Woodcut
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Thomas Brown in memory of her husband
Object number: 1956.39.9
DescriptionA scene from the Apocalypse, the revelation of St. John on the Island of Patmos; this scene is from revelations 14:14-20; figure of God sitting left within a circle of light in the clouds; he is crowned and holding a sickle; to the left is an angel who is kneeling and who seems, by the gesture of his hands, to be praying to God; below the figure of God is a smaller angel who is watching the activity below; below the figures of God and the angelss are several other angels on earth squashing grapes and cutting wheat; below the woodcut is part of the Latin text
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