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Details
- Date
- 1824-1825
- Media category
- Materials used
- mezzotint with drypoint
- Edition
- proof before lettering
- Dimensions
- 15.5 x 22.0 cm image; 19.6 x 26.8 cm platemark; 26.5 x 35.0 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Parramore Purchase Fund 2009
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 411.2009
- Copyright
- Artist information
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John Martin
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About
Milton tells us how Satan:
…with his horrid crew
Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf,
Confounded, though immortal……he views
The dismal situation waste and wild:
A dungeon horrible on all sides round,
As one great furness flame; yet from those flames
No light; but rather darkness visible
Served only to discover sights of woe… -
Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Michael Campbell, John Martin Visionary Printmaker, 1992, (illus.). CW 51
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