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Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra
Johann Jakob Scheuchzerbefore 1731
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Scene depicting the creation of light, featuring a sun with extended rays shining down from the top right corner. The sunlight is breaking apart the multitude of grey clouds, which appear in front of a large circular structure, possibly representing earth. A small circular structure appears in the lower left corner.
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- Title: Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra
- Creator: Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss, 1672–1733
- Date Created: before 1731
- Location Created: Zürich, Switzerland
- Publisher: Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 1686–1763
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Brush and grey, black wash, white goauche, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
- Credit line: Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
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