John Martin: Visionary PrintmakerThis catalogue lists and describes the work of John Martin, print-maker, and is designed to accompany an exhibition of his work in the York City Art Gallery in 1992. John Martin became famous in the 18th and 19th centuries for his adventurous, mezzotint engravings, using new techniques. |
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... Angel announcing the Nativity , Luke II.9 . Not in Balston Lent by Michael J. Campbell And there were in the same country , shepherds abiding in the field , keeping watch over their flocks by night . And lo , the angel of the Lord came ...
... Angel announcing the Nativity , Luke II.9 . Not in Balston Lent by Michael J. Campbell And there were in the same country , shepherds abiding in the field , keeping watch over their flocks by night . And lo , the angel of the Lord came ...
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... angel with the Book / Rev.X.2 Not in Balston Lent by Michael J. Campbell And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven , clothed with a cloud ; and a rainbow was upon his head , and his face was as it were the sun , and his feet ...
... angel with the Book / Rev.X.2 Not in Balston Lent by Michael J. Campbell And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven , clothed with a cloud ; and a rainbow was upon his head , and his face was as it were the sun , and his feet ...
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... angel recalls the Destroying Angel found in Martin's large mezzotint of that title ( C.W.118 ) — the mezzotint had included a splendid array of the palaces of Egypt , however , this design has no such impressive architecture on which ...
... angel recalls the Destroying Angel found in Martin's large mezzotint of that title ( C.W.118 ) — the mezzotint had included a splendid array of the palaces of Egypt , however , this design has no such impressive architecture on which ...
Contents
The Origins and Development of a Master | 5 |
Printmaking Techniques | 11 |
The imitators of John Martin | 184 |
Copyright | |
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1824 Mezzotint Ackermann Adam and Eve Allsop Terrace Angel appears architecture Athenaeum Balston 9a4 Belshazzar's Feast British Artists British Museum Campbell catalogue Chatfield Christie's coloured Commanding the Sun composition copies Deluge Designed & Engraved Designed and Engraved drypoint edition Engraved by John Fairclough Album Fall of Nineveh figures foreground Francis Danby Fully lettered proof Heaven Iguanodon John Martin Joshua Commanding landscape large mezzotint later Lent by Michael Leopold Martin Lettered impressions read lettered proof Lettered Literary Gazette lithographs London Martin Esqr./Book Martin's engravings Martin's Illustrations mezzotint engraving Mezzotint with etching Nineveh Old Bond Street original Paradise Lost Paradise Lost engravings platemark publication line Published by Septimus pure mezzotint re-engraved Royal Academy Satan Septimus Prowett Sezincot Sezincot House Signed within image Society of British Sotheby's steel plate style Sun to Stand Thomas Ross touches of drypoint trees watercolour Westall and Martin's whilst word proof