The Crossing of the Red Sea

c.1585

Johan Wierix

Artist, Flemish, 1549 - 1618 or after

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Charles Hack

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20 × 28.5 cm (7 7/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 20.8 × 29.3 cm (8 3/16 × 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.91.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 33


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Hack, New York; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Weirix). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 33

Inscriptions

in image, lower center: IHEW; in plate, across lower edge: Itur, atrox Pharao peut aequore, transit Hebreus. Sieut in excultae per loca plana vide. Exod: 14; 8

Wikidata ID

Q76560814


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