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JOHN MARTIN The Fall of Ninevah.
Mezzotint, 1829-30. 673x912 mm; 261/2x36 inches, small margins. Scattered short edge tears, well outside the image, backed with wove paper.
A very good, dark impression of this tour-de-force.
The apocalyptic vision represented by the English printmaker Martin (1789-1854) in the current work reveals the influence of Rembrandt in the virtuoso handling of chiaroscuro. Though working in a different technique, and one that was not yet in use during Rembrandt's career, the effect of this monumental work echoes Rembrandt's "Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print)". Campbell/Wees 82.
