The Fall of Babylon
An engraved panorama of a walled city with towers, domes and a tall obelisk, under a churning sky where two angels hover. In the foreground a crowd of soldiers, richly robed figures and kneeling people gathers on the plain, rendered in fine parallel hatching.
Look closer: A small inscription with the artist and publisher names runs along the bottom edge.
- Artist
- Philips Galle
- Date
- 1569
- Medium
- Engraving
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 1844 × 1067 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1569).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965