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Drawing, Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra, before 1731

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Johann Melchior Füssli and written by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer and published by Christian Ulrich Wagner. It is dated before 1731 and we acquired it in 1940. Its medium is brush and grey, black wash, white goauche, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund.

Its dimensions are

25.6 × 17.9 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

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Drawing, Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra, before 1731; Designed by Johann Melchior Füssli (Swiss, 1677–1736); Written by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (Swiss, 1672–1733); Published by Christian Ulrich Wagner; Switzerland; brush and grey, black wash, white goauche, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper; 25.6 × 17.9 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund; 1940-110-1

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