Gallery›Wellcome Collection›The power of understanding: Joseph's counsel to Pharaoh, to look out a man, discreet and wise, to organise the harvesting and storage of grain for the country and avoid famine. Engraving by Adrian Collaert after Jan van der Straet, 1567/1605.
The power of understanding: Joseph's counsel to Pharaoh, to look out a man, discreet and wise, to organise the harvesting and storage of grain for the country and avoid famine. Engraving by Adrian Collaert after Jan van der Straet, 1567/1605.
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The power of understanding: Joseph's counsel to Pharaoh, to look out a man, discreet and wise, to organise the harvesting and storage of grain for the country and avoid famine. Engraving by Adrian Collaert after Jan van der Straet, 1567/1605.

Jan van der Straet · 1567

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Lettering: Spiritus intellectus. Multarum expertus rerum vir mente volutat Multa: intellectum quie didicitque refert. Ecclesiast. XXXIIII. 9. 10. Ioan. Stradanus inventor. Adrian. Collaert Sculp.<sit> et excud<it>.

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