The Crossing of the Red Sea

1585

Johan Wierix

Artist, Flemish, 1549 - 1618 or after

Gerard de Jode

Artist, Flemish, 1509 or 1517 - 1591

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.2 x 29.5 cm (8 3/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 29.2 x 37.9 cm (11 1/2 x 14 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.139.99

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein (The Wierix Family), no. 32, State i/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leo Steinberg, New York (1920-2011); Estate of Leo Steinberg; gift to NGA, 2011

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (The Wierix Family, Zsusanna van Ruyven-Zeman with Marjolein Leesberg, authors). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2003: Part I, no. 32, i/iv; (The De Jode Dynasty, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2018: Part I, no. 64, i/iv.

Inscriptions

in image, lower center: IHEW; in plate, across lower edge: Itur, atrox Pharao peut aequore, transit Hebreus. Sieut in excultae per loca plana vide. Exod: 14

Wikidata ID

Q76559265

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