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The Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, from The Creation of the World, a set of eight plates

After Maerten de Vos Netherlandish
Copy after Johann Sadeler I Netherlandish
Publisher Claes Jansz. Visscher Dutch
1639 –1646
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Object Information
  • Title: The Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, from The Creation of the World, a set of eight plates
  • Artist: After Maerten de Vos (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1532–1603 Antwerp)
  • Artist: Copy after Johann Sadeler I (Netherlandish, Brussels 1550–1600/1601 Venice)
  • Publisher: Claes Jansz. Visscher (Dutch, Amsterdam 1586–1652 Amsterdam)
  • Date: 1639 –1646
  • Medium: Engraving; a copy after the engraving by Sadeler with the figure of God replaced by a tetragram
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 10 3/16 in. (19.7 × 25.8 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953
  • Object Number: 53.638.9
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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