Jonah at Nineveh, by Maerten van Heemskerck

An image of Jonah at Nineveh. An illustration to the Book of Jonah (Jonah, Chapter III, 5-7). Heemskerck, Maerten van (Netherlandish, 1498-1574). Pen and brown ink, on paper (incised for transfer), height 195 mm, width 249 mm, 1566.

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Jonah at Nineveh. An illustration to the Book of Jonah (Jonah, Chapter III, 5-7). Heemskerck, Maerten van (Netherlandish, 1498-1574). Pen and brown ink, on paper (incised for transfer), height 195 mm, width 249 mm, 1566.

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Accession Number: PD.406-1963
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 809 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 243.47kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2017:04:10 11:18:13

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