
AT-00024211
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A Prophet Seated on a Rock
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Johann Heinrich Lips (Swiss, Kloten 1758–1817 Zurich)
- Date
- 1780
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brown-gray wash, red chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 11 5/16 × 14 in. (28.8 × 35.6 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014
- Accession no.
- 2014.761
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00024211
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