Miracle of King Hezekiah

Made:: 1964 in South Kensington

commissioner:: Science Museum Drawing Office

Painting, oil on board, Miracle of King Hezekiah

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Painting, oil on board, Miracle of King Hezekiah
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Painting, oil on board, Miracle of King Hezekiah, by Jenny Clements?, unsigned, Science Museum Design Office, South Kensington, London, England, 1964. The painting is an enlarged copy of an illustration in a manuscript of 1285 CE in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, showing a monastic water-clock. The ms narrates the biblical miracle of King Hezekiah and the backward movement of the sun as shown by a dial.

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Category:: Art

Object Number:: 1964-306

Materials:: oil paint on board

Measurements:: overall: 20 x 12 in.; 508 x 304.8 mm

type:: oil painting

credit:: Science Museum, London

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