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The Creation of the Animals, from the series of etchings Biblical Scenes, after the frescoes by Raphael in the Vatican Loggia
Date:
1638
Location:
Not on display
Century:
Media:
Etching
Dimensions:
Image: 131 x 180 mm (5 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Department:
Object Type:
Country:
Continent:
Europe
Accession Number:
1963.30.37053
Acquisition Date:
1963-04-09
Credit Line:
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Exhibition History:
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis, Sept 15, 2008 - June 4, 2009.
God, represented here as the Hebrew word 'Jehovah', above the land which is covered with all the animals.