Study for God Appears to Moses and his Companions, Plate 171, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 1686–1763, Brush and grey, black, and blue wash, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid paper, A robed male figure with a crown and staff, presumably God, sits on a throne made of clouds in the center of the composition. Rays of light and a circle of clouds surround him and cover the top portion of the picture, becoming darker as they reach the picture frame. The figure hovers in the sky above a rectangular blue platform.

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