The Queen of Sheba and Solomon, from Old and New Testaments

1548

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 5 15/16 in. (11.5 × 15.1 cm)
Collection no.: 1975.508.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Augustin Hirschvogel. The Queen of Sheba and Solomon, from Old and New Testaments. Augustin Hirschvogel; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Queen of Sheba and Solomon, from Old and New Testaments — Augustin Hirschvogel. 1548.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 5 15/16 in. (11.5 × 15.1 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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