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Hand-coloured etching of a walled city beside a red-tinted river with figures, boats, palm trees and architecture, with printed captions below.

The First Plague in Egypt: Rivers Turned to Blood

A hand-coloured etching shows a walled city on a riverbank, with a broad, red-tinted waterway in the foreground where figures stand and kneel among reeds. Architecture, palm trees and small boats fill the scene, and printed French and German captions run along the lower margin.

Artist
Unknown
Date
[1775/1779]
Medium
Perspective projections Etchings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3119 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1779.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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