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Drawing, Study for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra
This is a Drawing. It was designed 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 grey, black wash, pen and brown 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
27.7 × 17.9 cm (10 7/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left margin: Genesis Cap. XXVIII.v.18.19.; lower right margin: 1. buch Mosis Cap. XXVIII.v.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Study for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra; Designed by Johann Melchior Füssli (Swiss, 1677–1736); Written by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (Swiss, 1672–1733); Published by Christian Ulrich Wagner; Switzerland; brush and grey, black wash, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper; 27.7 × 17.9 cm (10 7/8 × 7 1/16 in.); Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund; 1940-110-5
