Mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 7/8 × 30 inches (55.6 × 76.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower center: Designed & Engraved by John Martin, Chevalier of the Order of Leopold, &c.&c. | LONDON, PUBLISHED JUNE 1ST 1836, BY J. MARTIN, 30 ALLSOP, TERRACE; ACKERMANS & CO. STRAN; HODGSON & GRAVES 6 PALL MALL, & MOON, THREADNEEDLE ST. CITY"; lettered, lower right: "Depose a la direction"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.11935
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
pharaoh | death | woman | man | child | temple | palace | pillar | mourning | weeping | crying | jug | tree | cloud | lightning | plague | religious and mythological subject | the plague of the first-born: the destroying angel passes through the land and kills every Egyptian first-born of man and animal
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Egypt - The Legacy (Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, 1990-02-13 - 1990-04-22)