The Gathering of Manna
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1595–1605
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: Landscape with the camp of the Israelites, Moses standing at left. Women kneel on the ground gathering manna. An explanatory inscription in Italian appears beneath a framing line at the bottom of the image.
label: Description
content: Verso: A sacrificial animal burns on an altar in the foreground. Figures kneel at right. A winged angel addresses a woman in the background at left. An explanatory inscription in Italian appears beneath a framing line at the bottom of the image.
place: label: made in
content: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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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 through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-2660
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash over black chalk on paper Verso: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 7.5 × 10.6 cm (2 15/16 × 4 3/16 in.)