his famous series of sixteen great designs for the "apocalypse" are dated 1498. he made the first seven scenes of the "great passion" in the same year, and a little later, a series of eleven on the holy family and saints. around 1503–1505 he produced the first seventeen of a set illustrating the life of the virgin, which he did not finish for some years. neither these, nor the "great passion," were published as sets until several years later, but prints were sold individually in considerable numbers.