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Drawing, The Investigation of the Rainbow, design for plate 66 in the Physica Sacra, vol. 1, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
This is a Drawing. It was created by Johann Melchior Füssli and written by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer and published by Christian Ulrich Wagner. It is dated before 1731 and we acquired it in 1940. Its medium is brush and wash, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund.
Its dimensions are
29.5 × 18.7 cm (11 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: Pro patria
Cite this object as
Drawing, The Investigation of the Rainbow, design for plate 66 in the Physica Sacra, vol. 1, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer; Johann Melchior Füssli (Swiss, 1677–1736); Written by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (Swiss, 1672–1733); Published by Christian Ulrich Wagner; Switzerland; brush and wash, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid paper; 29.5 × 18.7 cm (11 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund; 1940-110-3
