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The Fifth Day God Created The Earth, a book page from Physica Sacra by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (Swiss, 1672-1733), also known as the Engraved Illustrated Bible, published by Johann Adreas Pfeffel (German, 1674-1738)
The Fifth Day God Created The Earth, a book page from Physica Sacra by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (Swiss, 1672-1733), also known as the Engraved Illustrated Bible, published by Johann Adreas Pfeffel (German, 1674-1738)
The Fifth Day God Created The Earth, a book page from Physica Sacra by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (Swiss, 1672-1733), also known as the Engraved Illustrated Bible, published by Johann Adreas Pfeffel (German, 1674-1738)
Artist Johann Melchior Fussli (Swiss, 1677 - 1736)

The Fifth Day God Created The Earth, a book page from Physica Sacra by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (Swiss, 1672-1733), also known as the Engraved Illustrated Bible, published by Johann Adreas Pfeffel (German, 1674-1738)

Date1731-35
MediumEngraving on paper
DimensionsSheet: 16 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (42.5 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineGeorgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Thomas S. Holman in memory of Donald Keyes, Curator of American Art at the Georgia Museum of Art from 1984-2000
Object number2013.499