The Destroying Angel

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

John Martin

Title

The Destroying Angel

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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1833

Medium

Brush and brown and black watercolor, with touches of scratching, on cream wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed and dated lower right, in pen and brown ink (faded): J.M. 1833"

Dimensions

8.5 × 13.6 cm (3 3/8 × 5 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Lowell and Rowena Libson in memory of Dorothy Braude Edinburg

Reference Number

2015.410

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