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Object Type
Museum number: 1917,1208.612
Description: Moses and the brazen serpent; the high priest standing at far right and shows the healing Serpent to the Israelites who are being attacked by poisonous snakes; Moses stands next to him holding a staff, addresses the people with rays projecting from his head; a naked man wrestling painfully with a huge snake in foreground; others at left fighting off the snakes which are raining down from a heavily clouded sky; fifth state with address of Huberti; after Peter Paul Rubens Engraving
Producer name: After: Peter Paul Rubens; Print made by: Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert; Published by: Gaspar Huberti
School/style
Production date: 1635-1659
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 470 millimetres; Width: 600 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: After the painting by Rubens in the National Gallery, London, inv.no.NG59 (Rooses 112). For impression of earlier state of this plate see also R,3.13-14.
Bibliographic references: Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (5.33); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (2.V); Corpus Rubenianum III / Rubens. The Old Testament (24) (copy 20)
Location: Not on display
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Associated names
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.612

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