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Patience

State of endurance under difficult circumstances

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Images referencing Patience

3 images from works
  • Birds attacking an owl resting upon a staff held by a naked woman; representing patience. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • Job rides on a turtle in front of his wife, his comforters and the devil. Engraving by D.V. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck, 1559.
  • Saint Stephen riding on an elephant; representing the triumph of patience. Engraving by D.V. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck.

Works from the collections

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    Birds attacking an owl resting upon a staff held by a naked woman; representing patience. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

    Christoph Murer | Date: 1622 | Reference: 26699i
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    Job rides on a turtle in front of his wife, his comforters and the devil. Engraving by D.V. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck, 1559.

    Heemskerk, Martin van, 1498-1574. | Date: [1559] | Reference: 20084i
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    If I only have now / Brain Pebble Poet.

    Brain Pebble Poet | Date: 2022
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    A young woman standing on a rock in a storm representing patience. Stipple engraving by W.W. Ryland, 1777, after A. Kauffmann.

    Angelica Kauffmann | Date: May 17th 1777 | Reference: 673106i
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    Saint Stephen riding on an elephant; representing the triumph of patience. Engraving by D.V. Coornhert after M. van Heemskerck.

    Maarten van Heemskerck | Date: [1559] | Reference: 7204i
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