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Melchizedek bringing bread and wine to Abraham

Maker

(draughtsman)
1695-1754

(engraver)

(publisher)
1711-1779

Title

Melchizedek bringing bread and wine to Abraham

Date of Production

1751

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 33.3 cm
Width: 40.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2279.15

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, black ink: "P. P. Rubens pinxit in // Templo Societ. Jezu Antuerpiae."; lower centre edge, black ink: "Panem & vinum Melchisedech Rex et Sacerdos profert Abrahamo. Gen: 14 Vs=18."; lower right edge, black ink: "J. de Wit delineavit. // J. Punt Sculpsit. 1751.".

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