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Delftware tile, Jonah Cast up by the Whale

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An image of Tile. Jonah Cast up by the Whale. Production Place: The Netherlands. In a square, framed by a scrolled border, 'Jonah Cast up by the Whale'. Inscribed below, 'Iona 2:10'. There is a hole in the top left and in the lower right corner. Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, height, whole, 12.4 cm, width, whole, 12.6 cm, depth, whole, 0.8 cm, circa 1700-1800.

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Tile. Jonah Cast up by the Whale. Production Place: The Netherlands. In a square, framed by a scrolled border, 'Jonah Cast up by the Whale'. Inscribed below, 'Iona 2:10'. There is a hole in the top left and in the lower right corner. Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, height, whole, 12.4 cm, width, whole, 12.6 cm, depth, whole, 0.8 cm, circa 1700-1800.

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  • Accession Number: C.2804.38-1928
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 958 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 201.40kB
  • Exposure time: 1/250
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1

Key words

18th Century Bible biblical blue blue and white Delftware Dutch earthenware fish Fitz_AA glazed Jonah Jonah and the Whale Jonas male Netherlandish Old Testament pottery prophet square tiles tin-glazed whales

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