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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

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Date:

1638

Location:

Not on display

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Media:

Etching

Dimensions:

Image: 131 x 180 mm (5 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

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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.

Contemporaneous Works “Art from the same century and country”