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Joseph

Also known as: Joseph; primary name: Joseph; other name: Yusuf
Details: individual; biblical figure; Male
Biography: Joseph appears in the Judaeo-Christian Old Testament (Genesis, XXXVII-XLI) and in the Koran. He was the eldest son of Jacob and Rachel. Incidents in his story include Joseph and his brothers, Joseph in the well, Joseph sold into slavery, Joseph interpreting dreams, Joseph and Potiphar's wife (Zuleika), Joseph with family in Egypt.

476 related objects

album

Museum number: 1974,0617,0.17.6 |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Production date: 18thC |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Deccan

album; drawing

Museum number: 1890,0314.2 |
Producer name: Circle/School of:Maso FiniguerraCircle/School of:Baccio Baldini |
Production date: 1470-1475

book of prints; print

Title: Giuseppe che si scopre ai fratelli in Egitto Pitture a fresco del Campo Santo di Pisa |
Museum number: 1856,0209.1330 |
Producer name: After:Benozzo GozzoliPrint made by:Carlo Lasinio |
Production date: 1812 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

book of prints; print

Title: Innocenza di Giuseppe Pitture a fresco del Campo Santo di Pisa |
Museum number: 1856,0209.1329 |
Producer name: After:Benozzo GozzoliPrint made by:Carlo Lasinio |
Production date: 1812 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

book-illustration; book

Museum number: 1904,0206.86.12 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hans Holbein the YoungerPublished by:Melchior Trechsel |
Production date: 1525-1526 |
Production place: Published in:Lyon

book-illustration; book

Museum number: 1904,0206.86.10 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hans Holbein the YoungerPublished by:Melchior Trechsel |
Production date: 1525-1526 |
Production place: Published in:Lyon

cameo

Museum number: .245 |
Production date: 16thC-17thC

cameo

Museum number: OA.2707 |
Producer name: Made by:James TassieMade by:William Tassie |
Production place: Made in:London (England)

dish

Museum number: 1889,0902.28 |
Producer name: Workshop of:Fontana FamilyWorkshop of:Antonio Patanazzi |
Production date: 1565-1575 |
Production place: Made in:Urbino

dish

Title: Joseph and his brothers at the arrival of Benjamin |
Museum number: 2006,0304.1 |
Producer name: BIOG220921 After:Bernard Salomon |
Production date: 1641 |
Production place: Made in:FranceMade in:Nevers

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1883,0609.108 |
Producer name: BIOG51475 Attributed to:Pierre Woeiriot |
Production date: 1532-1589

drawing

Museum number: 1936,0509.45 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Jean Honoré FragonardAfter:Bernardo Strozzi |
Production date: 1761

drawing

Museum number: T,3.20 |
Producer name: Drawn by:AnonymousAfter:Guido Reni |
Production date: 18thC

drawing

Museum number: Oo,9.101 |
Producer name: BIOG43386 Circle/School of:Rembrandt |
Production date: 1640-1650

drawing

Museum number: 1948,0214,0.4 |
Producer name: BIOG14004 Made by:Shafi `Abbasi |
Cultures/periods: x23245 Safavid dynasty |
Production date: 17thC 1645 |
Production place: Made in:Isfahan (province)

drawing

Museum number: SL,5226.169 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 16thC(late)

drawing

Museum number: Gg,2.249 |
Producer name: Circle/School of:RembrandtFormerly attributed to:Arent de Gelder |
Production date: 1660-1665

drawing; album

Museum number: 1885,0314.275 |
Producer name: BIOG28115 Drawn by:Henry Fuseli |
Production date: 1774

drawing

Museum number: 1954,0219.8 |
Producer name: BIOG48507 Drawn by:Pellegrino Tibaldi |
Production date: 1542-1596

drawing

Museum number: 1923,0113.6 |
Producer name: BIOG47838 Drawn by:Jan Swart van Groningen |
Production date: 1510-1553

drawing

Museum number: 1923,0113.10 |
Producer name: BIOG47838 Drawn by:Jan Swart van Groningen |
Production date: 1510-1553

drawing

Museum number: 1857,0613.367 |
Producer name: BIOG38667 Drawn by:Pier Francesco Mola |
Production date: 1627-1668

drawing

Museum number: 1923,0113.8 |
Producer name: BIOG47838 Drawn by:Jan Swart van Groningen |
Production date: 1510-1553

drawing

Museum number: SL,5226.168 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 16thC(late)

drawing

Museum number: 1923,0113.9 |
Producer name: BIOG47838 Drawn by:Jan Swart van Groningen |
Production date: 1510-1553

drawing

Museum number: 1963,0518.5 |
Producer name: BIOG22859 Drawn by:Lodovico Cigoli |
Production date: 1574-1613

drawing

Museum number: SL,5226.179 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 16thC(late)

drawing

Museum number: 1923,0113.7 |
Producer name: BIOG47838 Drawn by:Jan Swart van Groningen |
Production date: 1510-1553

drawing

Museum number: 2003,0629.1 |
Producer name: BIOG28661 Attributed to:Bonaventura Genelli |
Production date: 1825-1840

drawing

Museum number: 1923,0113.11 |
Producer name: BIOG47838 Drawn by:Jan Swart van Groningen |
Production date: 1510-1553

drawing

Museum number: 1923,0113.13 |
Producer name: BIOG47838 Drawn by:Jan Swart van Groningen |
Production date: 1510-1553

drawing

Museum number: 1857,0214.376 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 17thC

drawing

Museum number: Pp,5.112 |
Producer name: BIOG20473 Drawn by:Sébastien Bourdon |
Production date: 1616-1671

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1884,1108.6.+ |
Producer name: BIOG43405 Attributed to:Constantyn Daniël van Renesse |
Production date: 1653

drawing

Museum number: 1875,0710.2623 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Drawn by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1792-1878

drawing

Museum number: SL,5226.178 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 16thC(late)

drawing

Museum number: 1855,1013.39 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Willem DrostFormerly attributed to:Rembrandt |
Production date: 1650-1655

drawing; print study; album

Museum number: 1921,0411.31 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Jacob de WitAfter:Peter Paul Rubens |
Production date: 1710-1754

drawing

Museum number: 1923,0113.12 |
Producer name: BIOG47838 Drawn by:Jan Swart van Groningen |
Production date: 1510-1553

drawing

Museum number: SL,5226.171 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 16thC(late)

drawing

Museum number: 1905,0520.19 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Alfred StevensAfter:Lorenzo Ghiberti |
Production date: 1836-1839

drawing

Museum number: 1853,1008.10 |
Producer name: BIOG38667 Drawn by:Pier Francesco Mola |
Production date: 1627-1668

drawing

Museum number: SL,5226.175 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 16thC(late)

drawing

Museum number: T,4.82 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Nicolaus MosmanAfter:Salvator Rosa |
Production date: 1744-1787

drawing

Museum number: 1975,0920.108 |
Producer name: BIOG23588 Drawn by:Charles West Cope |
Production date: 1843

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.604 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 16thC

drawing

Museum number: SL,5224.63 |
Producer name: BIOG35740 After:Lucas van Leyden |
Production date: 1512-1599

drawing

Museum number: 1948,0710.8 |
Producer name: BIOG18735 Drawn by:Marius Bauer |
Production date: 1914

drawing

Museum number: Gg,2.248 |
Producer name: BIOG43386 Drawn by:Rembrandt |
Production date: 1639

drawing; cartoon

Museum number: 1990,0728.100 |
Producer name: BIOG38667 Drawn by:Pier Francesco Mola |
Production date: 1657

drawing

Museum number: 1911,0413.1 |
Producer name: BIOG23667 Drawn by:Pieter Cornelisz Kunst |
Production date: 1508-1544

drawing

Museum number: SL,5226.170 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 16thC(late)

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.1078 |
Producer name: BIOG20082 Attributed to:François Boitard |
Production date: 1694-1717

incantation bowl

Museum number: 117869 |
Cultures/periods: x14174 Late-Post Sasanian |
Production date: 6thC-8thC |
Production place: Made in:Iraq |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Ibrahim al-Khalil (Borsippa)Excavated/Findspot:Babylon (Iraq)

lamp

Museum number: EA23330 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 500-650 |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Akhmim

lamp

Museum number: EA22829 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 500-650 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Aswan (town)

medal

Title: Medallic Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures |
Museum number: 2003,0361.17 |
Producer name: BIOG116427 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Edward Thomason |
Production date: 1830 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: G3,PMAR4.7 |
Production date: 17thC |
Production place: Made in:Italy

medal

Museum number: 1866,1221.7.X |
Production date: 17thC |
Production place: Made in:Italy

medal

Title: Thomason Medallic Bible |
Museum number: 1970,0405.17 |
Producer name: Issuer:Franklin MintAfter:Edward Thomason |
Production date: 1970 |
Production place: Made in:USA

medal

Museum number: 1906,1103.971 |
Production date: 17thC |
Production place: Made in:Italy

medal

Title: Thomason Medallic Bible |
Museum number: 1970,0405.18 |
Producer name: Issuer:Franklin MintAfter:Edward Thomason |
Production date: 1970 |
Production place: Made in:USA

medal

Museum number: G3,PMAE5.43 |
Production date: 17thC |
Production place: Made in:Italy

medal

Museum number: M.1331 |
Production date: 17thC |
Production place: Made in:Italy

medal

Title: Thomason Medallic Bible |
Museum number: 1970,0405.16 |
Producer name: Issuer:Franklin MintAfter:Edward Thomason |
Production date: 1970 |
Production place: Made in:USA

medal

Title: Medallic Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures |
Museum number: 2003,0361.16 |
Producer name: BIOG116427 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Edward Thomason |
Production date: 1830 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: G3,PMAE6.22 |
Production date: 17thC |
Production place: Made in:Italy

medal

Title: Medallic Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures |
Museum number: 2003,0361.18 |
Producer name: BIOG116427 Die Engraved or Modelled for Reducing Machine:Edward Thomason |
Production date: 1830 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

niello plate; book-cover

Museum number: 1922,0708.1-10 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1460-1475 |
Production place: Made in:Florence (province)

ostracon

Museum number: EA50245 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 600-620 |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Monastery of St Phoibammon

ostracon

Museum number: EA55917 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 6thC-8thC |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Wadi Sarga

ostracon

Museum number: EA56629 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 6thC-8thC |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Wadi Sarga

ostracon

Museum number: EA41345 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 700-750 |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Monastery of St Phoibammon

ostracon

Museum number: EA50182 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 600-620 |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Monastery of St Phoibammon

ostracon

Museum number: EA33062 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 7thC-8thC |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Monastery of St Phoibammon

ostracon

Museum number: EA55979 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 6thC-8thC |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Wadi Sarga

ostracon

Museum number: EA55745 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 6thC-8thC |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Wadi Sarga

ostracon

Museum number: EA55890 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 6thC-8thC |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Wadi Sarga

ostracon

Museum number: EA55918 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 6thC-8thC |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Wadi Sarga

ostracon

Museum number: EA55983 |
Cultures/periods: x13769 Coptic |
Production date: 6thC-8thC |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Wadi Sarga

painting; manuscript

Museum number: 1941,0619,0.10 |
Producer name: BIOG16332 Made by:'Abd al-Rahím al-Sultání |
Cultures/periods: x23245 Safavid dynasty |
Production date: 1570 |
Production place: Made in:Shiraz

painting

Museum number: 1914,0407,0.7 |
Cultures/periods: x23245 Safavid dynasty |
Production date: 1560-1570 |
Production place: Made in:Iran

painting; manuscript

Museum number: 1937,0710,0.326 |
Cultures/periods: x23245 Safavid dynasty |
Production date: 1570 |
Production place: Made in:Iran

panel; casket

Museum number: 1901,1230.1 |
Cultures/periods: x272758 Middle Byzantine |
Production date: 10thC-11thC

panel; casket

Museum number: 1903,0514.8 |
Cultures/periods: x272758 Middle Byzantine |
Production date: 10thC

panel

Museum number: 1886,0702.3

pen-box

Museum number: 1970,0207.49 |
Producer name: BIOG12154 Made by:Mahmud Ibn Mubárák |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Production date: 1850 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Iran

pendant

Museum number: 1956,1007.1 |
Production date: 1550 |
Production place: Made in:England

photographic print

Museum number: 1860,1013.175 |
Producer name: After:GuercinoPhotographed by:Philip Henry Delamotte |
Production date: 1858 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

plate

Museum number: WB.34 |
Producer name: BIOG72134 Made by:IC |
Production date: 1580 |
Production place: Made in:Limoges

plate

Museum number: 1913,1220.59 |
Producer name: BIOG82095 Attributed to:Jean de Court |
Production date: 1555-1585 |
Production place: Made in:Limoges

print

Title: Joseph avec la femme de Phutaphar |
Museum number: 1920,0712.28 |
Producer name: Print made by:Joseph Adrianus ClarotAfter:Giambettino Cignaroli |
Production date: 1793

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0311.4233 |
Producer name: BIOG19532 Print made by:Thomas Bewick |
Production date: 1779

print

Title: Castitatis Exemplum |
Museum number: 1876,1111.80 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousAfter:Jacques Blanchard |
Production date: 1680-1720

print; book-illustration

Title: Steadfast resists temptation |
Museum number: 1874,0711.639 |
Producer name: After:Henry Courtney SelousBlock cut by:Joseph Lionel Williams |
Production date: 1830-1874

print

Title: Jacob blesses Joseph's two sons |
Museum number: 1838,0714.90 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WilsonAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1775

print

Title: Joseph's Abscheu vor Laster |
Museum number: 1870,0625.1016 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Joseph FreidhoffAfter:Jacob Seydelmann |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:Dessau

print

Museum number: 1870,0514.2754 |
Producer name: After:RaphaelPublished by:John King |
Production date: 1698-1738

print

Title: Jacob blessing Ephraim and Manasseh Dalziels' Bible Gallery |
Museum number: 1913,0415.201.631 |
Producer name: After:Frederick Richard PickersgillBlock cut by:Dalziel Brothers |
Production date: 1860s

print

Title: Joseph raconte ses songes |
Museum number: 1865,0208.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, Comte de CaylusAfter:Rembrandt |
Production date: 1730-1753