Moses smashes the tablets of the law. Artist: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Engraver: unknown. Source: Die Bibel in Bildern, Plate 55. Click on image to enlarge it.
Exodus 32:19: “And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount” (King James Bible).
Related material
- Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s Moses receives the tablets
- Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s The Brazen Serpent
- Gustave Doré’s Moses breaking the Tablets of the Law
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Bibliography
Die Bibel in Bildern [Picture Bible] von Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Leipzig: Georg Wigands, 1860. Hathi Digital Trust Library online version of a copy in the Columbia University Library. Web. 25 June 2016.
Last modified 25 June 2016