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 42
... falling ... 3 The Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first of Martin's mezzotints to use the blackness of the plate to suggest immeasurable scale . The viewer is left to his own imagination to create the " bottomless perdition " of the ...
... falling ... 3 The Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first of Martin's mezzotints to use the blackness of the plate to suggest immeasurable scale . The viewer is left to his own imagination to create the " bottomless perdition " of the ...
Page 104
... Fall of Nineveh became considerably re - engraved . Indeed , the entire upper area of the plate became re - worked . The city and storm to the left of the image became expanded and far lighter ; the mountain at the centre entirely re ...
... Fall of Nineveh became considerably re - engraved . Indeed , the entire upper area of the plate became re - worked . The city and storm to the left of the image became expanded and far lighter ; the mountain at the centre entirely re ...
Page 205
... Fall of Babylon , 96 Illustrations of the Bible , C.W.110 , 149 large mezzotint , C.W.88 , 1,112,192 painting , 6,22,45,113 Fall of Man , C.W.93 , 120,125,126,152 Fall of Nineveh , John Martin , 3 , Fall of Nineveh , A Poem , 99 ...
... Fall of Babylon , 96 Illustrations of the Bible , C.W.110 , 149 large mezzotint , C.W.88 , 1,112,192 painting , 6,22,45,113 Fall of Man , C.W.93 , 120,125,126,152 Fall of Nineveh , John Martin , 3 , Fall of Nineveh , A Poem , 99 ...
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