print
- Museum number
- 1853,0312.31
- Title
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Object: Dies VI
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Series: The creation of the world
- Description
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Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-everything that has the breath of life in it-I give every green plant for food." And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day. [Genesis 1: 26-31]; God appears as an apparition at left and he raises his arms towards a standing naked woman (Eve); Adam sleeps on the ground; after Hendrick Goltzius. 1589
Engraving
- Production date
- 1590
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 265 millimetres (cut to the design)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the series of seven plates see 1853,0312.70.*. For another impression see also 1853,0312.30. A preliminary sketch is in the Universiteitsbibliotheek, Leiden, inv.no.PK-1958-T-4.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1852
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1853,0312.31