Scene from Tanah “Mose staat het waater uyt den Rotzsteen” Orig. copper Engraving, by Jan Luyken, ca.1720

Artist: Jan Luyken

Engraver: J.Covens & C.Mortier

Image Size: 34 x 44 cm. (13.3 x 17.3 inches)

Size with fields: 43.5 x 51.4cm. (17.1 x 20.2 inches)

Condition: light brown paper and some stains to the fields; tiny tears to top and bottom

Johannes or Jan Luyken (16 April 1649 – 5 April 1712) was a Dutch poet, illustrator, and engraver He was born and died in Amsterdam, where he learned engraving from his father Kaspar Luyken.[1] He was a child prodigy.[2]
Luyken married at 19 and had several children, including renowned engraver Caspar Luyken.[1] At age 26 Luyken converted to the Mennonite church, which inspired him to write moralistic poetry.[1]
Luyken illustrated the 1685 edition of the Martyrs Mirror with 104 copper etchings. Thirty of these plates survive and were part of The Mirror of the Martyrs exhibit.[3]
He also published Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") in 1694, which contains numerous engravings of 17th-century trades by Luiken and his son Caspar (Caspaares).