Drawing, Wooded Landscape with Elijah Awakened and Nourished by an Angel on Mount Horeb [above left]; Annunciation [below left]; The Banquet of King Ahasuerus [above right]; Christ Surrounded by Angels with the Arma Christi [below right].

This is a Drawing. It was created by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus. It is dated ca. 1597 and we acquired it in 1901. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and gray and gray-brown wash, over black chalk on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors.

Its dimensions are

15.5 × 21.1 cm (6 1/8 × 8 5/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Recto, above left, inscribed in pen and ink within composition: "pomo granata / Elia / vestita a essere da saserdota" Recto, above left, inscribed in pen and ink at lower margin: "langelo da de mangiar e bere ad Eelia stava sotto uno / albero non ersersite dormendosi nelombra elia / nella spelonca dio parlo con loi che fai tu qua in sino / al monte de dio Oreb, e fugli fatta ill parlare del signior / disendo helias che fatu qui" Recto, above right, inscribed in pen and ink within composition: "Asuero" Recto, above right, inscribed in pen and ink at lower margin: "convivio di ansuero alla Anticha" Recto, below right, inscribed in pen and ink within composition: "passia [struck out] / angelica " Verso, above left, inscribed in pen and ink at lower margin:" S. marcho cap. 22 / S. Gio. 16 [struck out] 6 creste nel tempio disse a gudeio che / dava mangiare le suo corpo le giudei desputano tra / loro" Verso, above right, inscribed in pen and ink in lower margin: "in chiesa cap / 21 / Abimelec saserdote da demangiare a davitto"

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