A Rider on a Black Horse with a Pair of Balances in His Hand; and A Pale Horse with Death as Its Rider, from an Apocalypse blockbook, 2nd edition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Rider on a Black Horse with a Pair of Balances in His Hand; and A Pale Horse with Death as Its Rider, from an Apocalypse blockbook, 2nd edition

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century

Date
1440–50
Medium
Woodcut printed in dark brown ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 8 3/8 in. (29.2 × 21.3 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
54.654.3
Credit line
Gift of Dr. F. H. Hirschland, 1954

Subjects and terms

  • Apocalypse
  • Horses

The Met object ID 337965. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.