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Title anyone who is bitten by a snake is cured by looking at the brazen serpent; the serpent (or dragon) is usually depicted on a tau-shaped cross or on a pillar, when the people complain again about the food, God sends poisonous snakes; many die of snake-bites ~ book of Numbers
Type Illustration
Sizes 117x64
Material Copper engraving
Colour Black
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1791
Iconclass 71E3243,71E3241
Iconclass description anyone who is bitten by a snake is cured by looking at the brazen serpent; the serpent (or dragon) is usually depicted on a tau-shaped cross or on a pillar, when the people complain again about the food, God sends poisonous snakes; many die of snake-bites ~ book of Numbers
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Amsterdam BVU XZ.00218 (Numbers) 1 between G6v and G7r
Show scan: Amsterdam BVU XZ.00218 (Numbers) vol.1 p.between G6v and G7r
Show edition: 1791.B.dut.JEandSons.a

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