John Martin: Visionary PrintmakerCampbell Fine Art, 1992 - 206 pages This 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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Page 15
... Campbell Horse Chesnut is , without doubt , the most elaborate of the etchings produced for Characters of Trees . The fullness of this tree , although handled with almost over - meticulous care , has prevented the artist from ...
... Campbell Horse Chesnut is , without doubt , the most elaborate of the etchings produced for Characters of Trees . The fullness of this tree , although handled with almost over - meticulous care , has prevented the artist from ...
Page 17
... Campbell This print provides an excellent example of how Martin's etching technique had developed since his early classical etchings of the preceding year . Here , Martin has created a sense of recession from the foreground trees to the ...
... Campbell This print provides an excellent example of how Martin's etching technique had developed since his early classical etchings of the preceding year . Here , Martin has created a sense of recession from the foreground trees to the ...
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... Campbell Begun in pure mezzotint alone , this larger version of Raphael conversing with Adam and Eve shares the same ... Campbell . Collection of Michael J. Campbell . An early working proof prior to any of the etched work is in the ...
... Campbell Begun in pure mezzotint alone , this larger version of Raphael conversing with Adam and Eve shares the same ... Campbell . Collection of Michael J. Campbell . An early working proof prior to any of the etched work is in the ...
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