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John Martin, 1799-1854 : his life and works / by Thomas Balston. With 25 plates.
LIBRA Fisher Fine Arts ND497.M37 B3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balston, Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Martin, John, 1789-1854.
- Martin, John.
- Penn Provenance:
- Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)
- Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 309, [3] pages, [25] pages of plates : illustrations (partly color), portraits ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- John Martin his life and works
- John Martin
- Place of Publication:
- London : Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., [1947]
- Contents:
- Preface
- 1789-1803. Haydon Bridge
- 1803-6. Newcastle
- 1806-11. London
- 1812-15. Sadak, Clytie
- 1816-18. Joshua, Etchings
- 1819-20. The Fall of Babylon, Macbeth
- 1821. Belshazzar's Feast
- 1821-2. The Egyptian Hall, The Destruction of Pompeii
- 1823-5. Adam and Eve, The Paphian Bower, The Seventh Plague, The Creation
- 1812-25. Private Life
- 1826. The Deluge, The Annuals
- 1824-8. First Mezzotints, Paradise Lost
- 1827-8. The Fall of Nineveh
- 1829. The Edinburgh Review
- 1827-53. Mr. Martin's Plans
- 1829-31. The Nineveh Mezzotint, The Illustrations of the Bible
- 1832-5. More Mezzotints, Appreciations, Westall and Martin's Bible
- 1825-35. Private Life
- 1836. The Committee on Arts, The Academy
- 1837-8. Financial Crisis
- 1838-41. The Coronation of Queen Victoria, The Eve of the Deluge
- 1842-8. The last Mezzotint, Canute
- 1848-53. Lindsey House
- 1851-4. The Judgment Pictures, Death
- Aftermath (1). The Judgment Picture, Exhibitions, Auctions
- Aftermath (2). Water-colours, Lindsey House, Martin's Family.
- Notes:
- "First published 1947"--Title page verso.
- "Printed in Great Britain by The Camelot Press Ltd., London and Southampton"--Title page verso.
- Includes "Bibliographical note" (pages 293-294) and index.
- Local Notes:
- ND497.M37.B3 Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran, 2021 has dust jacket retained with protective transparent cover retained. Front free endpaper has "E.I?A? Johnson Princeton Charles Ryskamp" written in ms.
- OCLC:
- 31918508
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