The Crossing of the Red Sea, c.1585

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series Title

The Story of Moses

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 20 × 28.5 cm (7 7/8 × 11 1/4 in.)

sheet: 20.8 × 29.3 cm (8 3/16 × 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Hack

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 33

Accession Number

2012.91.8

Artists / Makers

Johan Wierix (artist) Flemish, 1549 - 1618 or after

Maarten van Cleef (artist after) Flemish, c. 1527 - 1581

Image Use

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Inscription

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; 8

Provenance

Charles Hack, New York; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Hack, Charles

Bibliography

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Weirix). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 33