Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, BritishEngraved by Charles Turner, 1774–1857, Britishafter Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Title:
The Fifth Plague of Egypt
Date:
1808
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 × 11 1/8 inches (20.3 × 28.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on mount in graphite, lower left: "16"; lower right: "2nd State"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "<...> 6 by 5"; inscribed on back of mount in graphite, lower center: "Second State"; lower right: "ZW Aug 1942"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.8118
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | pyramids | lightning | Old Testament | ziggurats | plague | people | clouds | disease | the ten plagues (Exodus 7:14 - 11:10, 12:21-30) | science | religious and mythological subject | meteorology | storm
Associated Places:
Egypt
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24)Egypt - The Legacy (Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, 1990-02-13 - 1990-04-22)Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19)Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20)Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04)
Publications:
Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830 [wall labels], Yale Center for British Art, 2008, p. 34, V 2576 (YCBA)Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 16, V1880