Study for the First Plan of Solomon's Temple, Plate 420, Physica Sacra
date: label: Date
content: before 1731
name: label: Designer
content: Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736
label: Author
content: Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss, 1672–1733
label: Publisher
content: Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 1686–1763
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A group of robed men, pointing and conversing with each other, appear in the left foreground. They are standing on a flat surface in an open space, with a brick wall on the left and behind them. A few other robed male figures are dispersed throughout the picture. Mountains appear in the background. A large sheet of paper with an architectural plan is positioned in the upper center of the composition, hanging from the elaborately ornamented frame bordering the picture.
place: label: made in
content: Zürich, Switzerland
label: published in
content: Augsburg, Germany
label: published in
content: Ulm, Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1940-110-11
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and grey, black wash, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29 × 19.9 cm (11 7/16 × 7 13/16 in.)