The Fish Spits Jonah Out Onto Dry Land, from the series Toneel ofte vertooch der Bybelsche historien

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Pieter Hendriksz. Schut (engravers (printmakers))
,
Nicolaes II Visscher (publisher)

Date

1659

Period

17th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
After surviving three days and nights in the belly of the fish, the fish spits Jonah out on land. The water at sea is calm and the sun is just rising.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Pieter Hendriksz. Schut , Nicolaes II Visscher
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works) AAT
Material
burijngravure op papier
paper
Dimensions 68 x 100 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-HE
Description
Subjects religious symbolism , figures (representations) , animal paintings , landscapes
Tags Old Testament Iconclass , landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass , sea (seascape) Iconclass , water (one of the four elements) Iconclass , beach Iconclass , fishes Iconclass , male sex; man Iconclass , lying figure Iconclass , after a three-day sojourn in the belly of the monster Jonah is cast on dry land; Jonah may be shown nude and bald-headed Iconclass , Jonah in the fish's belly (Jonah 2:1 - 3:2) Iconclass , mis-shapen animals; monsters Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-HE
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11451/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai/?metadataPrefix=oai_lido&verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-HE

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