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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... Landscape Composition as item no.46 in the Great Room.2 Towards the end of this year , or early in 1812 Martin left his job at Collins ' glassworks due to a disagreement with the other employees and took the courageous step of embarking ...
... Landscape Composition as item no.46 in the Great Room.2 Towards the end of this year , or early in 1812 Martin left his job at Collins ' glassworks due to a disagreement with the other employees and took the courageous step of embarking ...
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... landscape and cataclysmic events shown in the painting : " ... the marshalling and the landscape of the war is everything , the miracle sinks into an anecdote of the day ; and the eye may ' dart through rank and file traverse ' for some ...
... landscape and cataclysmic events shown in the painting : " ... the marshalling and the landscape of the war is everything , the miracle sinks into an anecdote of the day ; and the eye may ' dart through rank and file traverse ' for some ...
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... landscape , torn by lightening , lashed with rain and populated by wild beasts . At the right of the image the serpent , instigator of their downfall , slithers quietly into the darkness , his evil task fulfilled . Here we are presented ...
... landscape , torn by lightening , lashed with rain and populated by wild beasts . At the right of the image the serpent , instigator of their downfall , slithers quietly into the darkness , his evil task fulfilled . Here we are presented ...
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