Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860

The Fall of Jericho

On the seventh day, as the people shout and the trumpets sound, the walls of Jericho fall down flat and Israel takes the city (Joshua 6). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

The Fall of Jericho by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld depicting Joshua 6:15
View full resolutionPublic domain via Wikimedia Commons. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), Die Bibel in Bildern, Leipzig: Georg Wigand, 1860.Source

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Portrait of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

About Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

1794-1872 · German

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German Nazarene painter whose "Die Bibel in Bildern" (1852–1860), a cycle of 240 woodcuts, became one of the most widely circulated Protestant Bible picture books of the 19th century.