The Investigation of the Rainbow, design for plate 66 in the Physica Sacra, vol. 1, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
date: label: Date
content: before 1731
name: label: Artist
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 gentleman with a dog is surrounded by a small circular rainbow and faces a mountain with a cascading waterfall. The picture contains two large diagrams - the upper portion of the picture consists of two circles and diagonal lines, and the lower portion contains two arches and diagonal lines. The letters P and O appear in the upper portion, while Fig. 1 and the letters S and O appear below. The diagonal lines leading to the arches in the bottom portion are emanating from an eye that appears on the ground, just to the right of the man and his dog.
place: label: made in
content: Zürich, Switzerland
label: published in
content: Ulm, Germany
label: published in
content: Augsburg, Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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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: 1940-110-3
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and wash, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29.5 × 18.7 cm (11 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)