During a funeral a band of ransacking Moabites is seen approaching and the corpse is thrown hastily into Elisha's tomb; when it touches Elisha's bones the man comes back to life.
| Artist |
Pieter Hendriksz. Schut
RKD
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Nicolaes I Visscher
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Nicolaes II Visscher
RKD
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| Title | The Miracle at Elisha's Grave, from the series Toneel ofte vertooch der Bybelsche historien |
| Date | 1659 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Location | Amsterdam TGN |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription outside the depiction, below: Een gestorven man geworpen in Elisa graff, wert weder levende. |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, centre below: 2. Regnum 13.21. | |
| inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: 126 | |
| inscription on the back, at the right: 8 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-GB |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-GB |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11405/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055874
religious symbolism
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A21
(human) skeleton
Iconclass
31A211 (human) skull Iconclass 71 Old Testament Iconclass 42E3 grave, tomb and other grave-forms and grave-markers Iconclass 42E14 placing the corpse in the coffin Iconclass 42E23 burial Iconclass 42E31 grave, tomb Iconclass 42E38 signs, symbols and motifs in funerary art Iconclass 45L3 plundering ~ soldiers Iconclass 47I15(SPADE) agricultural implements: spade Iconclass 51L51 Resurrection; 'Ressurrettione' (Ripa) Iconclass 71N story of Elisha (Eliseus) Iconclass 71N7 Elisha's bones (2 Kings 13:21) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
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