The Tower of Babel
Dublin Core
Title
The Tower of Babel
Description
The confusion of tongues; at centre, the tower of Babel under construction with various workmen abandoning the site, some with elephants and camels; in the foreground to left, Nemrod, bricklayers and other men looking towards Christ surrounded by angels and halting the building of the tower; first state with figure of God in top right; after Jan Snellincx
Engraving with contemporary colouring
Engraving with contemporary colouring
Publisher
Gerard de Jode
Date
1579 (circa)
1585 (printed)
1585 (printed)
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Relation
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1968-1018-1-21
Format
engraving
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
engraving
Citation
“The Tower of Babel,” The Little Gidding Harmonies, accessed June 21, 2025, https://digitalbookhistory.com/littlegidding/items/show/1258.