Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld1860
Return from the Babylonian Captivity
Stirred by the proclamation of Cyrus, the exiles of Judah set out from Babylon to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the house of the Lord (Ezra 1). A wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Die Bibel in Bildern (1860).

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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.