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Melchisedek Offering Bread and Wine to Abraham, from the series of etchings Biblical Scenes, after the frescoes by Raphael in the Vatican Loggia

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Date:

1607

Location:

Not on display

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Media:

Etching

Dimensions:

13.1 x 17.8 cm (image)

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Europe

Accession Number:

1958.142.2.9

Acquisition Date:

1958-02-21

Credit Line:

Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund

Melchisedek, the king, offers amphorae filled with wine and baskets brimming with bread to Abraham and his soldiers.

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