Elijah Is Fed by the Ravens in the Wilderness

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Jan Saenredam (publisher)
,
Abraham Bloemaert (after)

Date

1604

Period

17 century

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.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Jan Saenredam VIAF RKD Wikidata, Abraham Bloemaert VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 271 x 198 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-KB-2-2
Description
Subjects religious symbolism AAT, 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?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-KB-2-2
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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