Jonah Thrown into the Stormy Sea
1610/1620
Artist, Flemish, 1583 - 1620

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 21 x 26.8 cm (8 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
overall: 28.6 x 35.4 cm (11 1/4 x 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1999.136.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 33, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Hill-Stone Incorporated, New York); purchased 1999 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2007
Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge
Inscriptions
lower left in image: Paulus Bril inventor. Iu. Sadeler excudit; across bottom of plate: Ionas puppe codens, Ceto sorbente voratus, / In pelago non sensit aquas vitale sepulcrum / Ne moreretur habens tandemq. e ventre ferino / Venit ad ignotas tutus sine remige terras:; by later hand, upper right in ink: 54; by later hand, lower left in graphite: J.S.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Justus 33; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 98/021
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Watermarks
unidentified fragment
Wikidata ID
Q75426230