Study for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 1686–1763, Brush and grey, black wash, white goauche, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, Scene depicting the creation of light, featuring a sun with extended rays shining down from the top right corner. The sunlight is breaking apart the multitude of grey clouds, which appear in front of a large circular structure, possibly representing earth. A small circular structure appears in the lower left corner., Zürich, Switzerland, before 1731, landscapes, Drawing

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