Elijah Is Fed by the Ravens in the Wilderness

Public Domain

Date

1604

Period

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

The prophet Elijah sits on the ground in the wilderness. Two ravens come to bring him food. The print has a Latin text in the lower margin.

Public Domain

More about this work

Features

Description

Linked open data

Features

Type	burin engraving
Category	prints (visual works) AAT
Material	burijngravure op papier paper
Dimensions	271 x 198 mm
Location	Work currently not on display
Object number	2014-KB-2-2

Description

Subjects

religious symbolism , figures (representations) , landscapes , animal paintings

Tags

Old Testament Iconclass , male sex; man Iconclass , old man Iconclass , sitting figure Iconclass , giving food Iconclass , trees Iconclass , story of Elijah (Elias) Iconclass , Elijah as first hermit Iconclass , Elijah fed by the raven(s): while the prophet is living by the brook, ravens bring him food Iconclass , brook Iconclass , landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass , water (one of the four elements) Iconclass , art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass , ascetic life and practice Iconclass , mortification of the senses ~ ascetic life Iconclass

Linked open data

Data PURL	https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-KB-2-2
IIIF manifest	https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11556/manifest.json
LIDO XML	https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai/?metadataPrefix=oai_lido&verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-KB-2-2

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