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General

Title 'I am the light of the world' ~ sayings of Christ (John 8:12, 9:5), God the Father represented as human being, usually with crown or tiara or sceptre and/or globe
Type Illustration
Sizes 102x73
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Artist Christoffel (2) van Sichem
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1657
Iconclass 73C7471,11C2
Iconclass description 'I am the light of the world' ~ sayings of Christ (John 8:12, 9:5), God the Father represented as human being, usually with crown or tiara or sceptre and/or globe
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Appearances

Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (John) 2 Q5r
Show scan: Amsterdam BVU XI.05043 (John) vol.2 p.Q5r
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.a

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Scan: Utrecht UB MAZ 2176 (John) vol.2 p.Q5r
Show edition: 1657.B.dut.PJP.b

References

Literature references

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut 1977 chapter 2 An Introduction to the Woodcuts of the Seventeenth Century, with a discussion of the German woodcut Broadsides of the Seventeenth Century (by Ingeborg Lehmann-Haupt), New York

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut 1983 Christoffel van Sichem A Family of Dutch 17th Century Woodcut Artists, in: Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Vol. XXVII, Christoffel (1) van Sichem to Herman Specht, pp. 274-306

Bibliographic references

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