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Drawing, Study for Serpents Sent to Destroy the Sinners, Plate 360, Physica Sacra
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, pen and brown, black 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
29.6 × 20 cm (11 5/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: Pro patria
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper right corner: TAB CCCLX Possible remnants of a similar caption are farther up.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Study for Serpents Sent to Destroy the Sinners, Plate 360, Physica Sacra; 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, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid paper; 29.6 × 20 cm (11 5/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund; 1940-110-8
