The Investigation of the Rainbow, design for plate 66 in the Physica Sacra, vol. 1, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer — Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736, before 1731

The Investigation of the Rainbow, design for plate 66 in the Physica Sacra, vol. 1, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Johann Melchior Füssli, Swiss, 1677–1736

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Credit: Museum purchase from the Mary Hearn Greims Fund
Licence: CC0-1.0
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Record: https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/72392

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Made in the eighteenth century, like The Investigation of the Rainbow, design for plate 66 in the Physica Sacra, vol. 1, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer.

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