Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British, Tenth Plague of Egypt, 1816
- Title:
- Tenth Plague of Egypt
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1816
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 × 16 3/4 inches (27.9 × 42.5 cm), Plate: 8 1/4 × 11 1/2 inches (21 × 29.2 cm), Image: 7 × 10 1/4 inches (17.8 × 26 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "61"; lower right: 3rd State"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "Sotheby | 1.8.22 | Ay"; lower center: "(Rimell, 1927 | Ex Wallis Collection)"
Lettered above imgage: "H"; below image: "Drawn & Etched by I.M.W.Turner Esq.R.A. | Engraved by W.Say Engraver to H R H the Duke of Gloucester | TENTH PLAGUE OF EGYPT | Published Jan 1. 1816 by I.M.W.Turner: Queen Ann Street West."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.13982
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- child | city | death | family | foliage | hill | landscape | landscape | lightning | mourning | path | plague | pyramids (tombs) | religious and mythological subject | sitting | son | stairs | storm | the plague of the first-born: the destroying angel passes through the land and kills every Egyptian first-born of man and animal | tree | woman
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Egypt
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38759
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