Daniel's Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks

Lukas Stipperger, 1797

This is a drawing of a ceremonial scene featuring figures around an altar. The scene is filled with numerous figures engaging in a ceremonial or religious ritual. The central figure appears to be dressed in… · description from the collection

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Artist: Lukas Stipperger ¹
Date: 1797 ¹
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper ¹
Original: 5,130 × 3,181 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

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Drawn with delicate lines in brown ink on vertically oriented, dark tan-colored paper, a man playing a bagpipe sits in a stool, which he tips to one side. The man has a round face with oversized, puffed cheeks.

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