The Destroying Angel

Prints and Drawings

1833

John Martin
English, 1789-1854

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: John Martin
Title: The Destroying Angel
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 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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Royal Dublin Society, Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1861.
London, Lowell Libson Ltd., “British Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings,” 2010.

Samuel Leigh Sotheby (1805-1861); sold, Sotheby’s, February 6, 1862, lot 131. Private collection, United Kingdom, 1997. Private collection, United States. Given by Lowell and Rowena Libson, London, to the Art Institute, 2015.

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