Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, 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: 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.
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: 1940-110-1
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 grey, black wash, white goauche, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 25.6 × 17.9 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.)