Artworks · John Martin

F. Shaw Brothers Tannery, Maine

1882 · Pen and black and red inks, graphite, watercolor, and white gouache on Bristol board

34 5/8 x 43 15/16 in. (87.9 x 111.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for ‘The Last Judgement’

1853 · Graphite and ink on paper

image: 150 x 302 mm

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The Last Judgement

1853 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 1968 x 3258 mm frame: 2400 x 3685 x 175 mm

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The Plains of Heaven

1851 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 1988 x 3067 mm frame: 2415 x 3485 x 175 mm

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The Great Day of His Wrath

1851 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 1965 x 3032 mm frame: 2400 x 3470 x 175 mm

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Gleaners in the Wheat Field

1847 · watercolor with gouache on wove paper

overall: 17.2 x 25.6 cm (6 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

View on the River Wye, Looking towards Chepstow

1844 · watercolor, gouache, and touches of oil paint (?) over graphite with scraping out, heightened with varnish and/or gum arabic, on wove paper

Overall: 30.7 x 64 cm (12 1/16 x 25 3/16 in.) overall (mat size): 50.8 x 86.4 cm (20 x 34 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Valley of the Tyne, My Native Country near Henshaw

1842 · watercolor, gouache and gum arabic with graphite underdrawing, sanding, and scraping

Sheet: 26.6 x 67.5 cm (10 1/2 x 26 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium, from ‘Paradise Lost’, Book 1

1841 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 622 x 765 mm frame: 847 x 962 x 81 mm

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View on the South Downs

1840 · Watercolor with reductive techniques

Sheet: 9 1/2 in. × 13 in. (24.1 × 33 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Coronation of Queen Victoria

1839 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 2381 x 1854 mm

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Plate from ‘Illustrations to the Bible’: Belshazzar’s Feast

1835 · Mezzotint on paper

image: 190 x 290 mm

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Belshazzar's Feast, from Illustrations of the Bible

1835 · Mezzotint with etching in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Fall of Babylon, from Illustrations of the Bible

1835 · Mezzotint with etching in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still, from Illustrations of the Bible

1835 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Psalm CXXXVII, from Illustrations of the Bible

1835 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

David Spareth Saul at Hachilah, from Illustrations of the Bible

1835 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Plate from ‘Illustrations to the Bible’: Moses Breaketh the Tables

1833 · Mezzotint on paper

image: 188 x 290 mm

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Plate from ‘Illustrations to the Bible’: The Destruction of the Pharoah’s Host

1833 · Mezzotint on paper

image: 188 x 282 mm

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Moses and the Burning Bush, from Illustrations of the Bible

1833 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Destroying Angel

1833 · Brush and brown and black watercolor, with touches of scratching, on cream wove paper

8.5 × 13.6 cm (3 3/8 × 5 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Daughter of Pharoah Finding the Infant Moses, from Illustrations of the Bible

1833 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Seventh Plague, from Illustrations of the Bible

1833 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Moses Breaketh The Tables, from Illustrations of the Bible

1833 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Destruction of the Pharoah's Host, from Illustrations of the Bible

1833 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Text and cover, from Illustrations of the Bible

1833 · Portfolio cover

Art Institute of Chicago

Plate from ‘Illustrations to the Bible’: The Covenant

1832 · Mezzotint on paper

image: 190 x 290 mm

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The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, from Illustrations of the Bible

1832 · Mezzotint with etching in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Covenant, from Illustrations of the Bible

1832 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Adam and Eve Hearing the Judgement of the Almighty, from Illustrations of the Bible

1831 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Deluge, from Illustrations of the Bible

1831 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Death of Abel, from Illustrations of the Bible

1831 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Expulsion, from Illustrations of the Bible

1831 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Creation, from Illustrations of the Bible

1831 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Fall of Man, from Illustrations of the Bible

1831 · Mezzotint in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 29 cm (7 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.); Plate: 26.8 × 35.7 cm (10 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 41.6 cm (13 × 16 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still

1827 · mezzotint and etching in black and brownish black on chine collé [proof]

plate: 57.1 x 77.8 cm (22 1/2 x 30 5/8 in.) sheet: 57.6 x 78.8 cm (22 11/16 x 31 in.) overall (mat size): 66 x 86.4 cm (26 x 34 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Belshazzar's Feast

1826 · hand-colored mixed media intaglio

sheet: 47.9 x 68.1 cm (18 7/8 x 26 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Belshazzar's Feast (First Plate)

1826 · Mezzotint with etching; proof

Image: 18 1/2 x 28 5/16 in. (47 x 71.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paradise Lost: The Creation of Light

1824 · mezzotint

Platemark: 25.3 x 35.2 cm (9 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.); Sheet: 26.8 x 36.8 cm (10 9/16 x 14 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Christ Tempted in the Wilderness

1824 · Mezzotint, with etching on cream laid paper

Plate: 17.5 × 25.4 cm (6 15/16 × 10 in.); Sheet: 37.2 × 52.8 cm (14 11/16 × 20 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum

1822 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 1616 x 2530 mm frame: 1968 x 2879 x 161 mm

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The Garden of Eden

1821 · Watercolour on paper

frame: 482 x 594 x 18 mm support: 194 x 264 mm

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A Man Playing a Harp with other Figures beside a Lake

1820 · brown wash with graphite

Sheet: 19.7 x 26.8 cm (7 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Figures Seated by a Lake in a Wooded Landscape

1820 · brown wash and point of brush with graphite underdrawing

Sheet: 19.8 x 26.6 cm (7 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Landscape with a Ruined Castle

1819 · Brush and brown ink and wash, over traces of graphite on cream wove paper, laid down on tan board

25.1 × 38.7 cm (9 15/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still Upon Gibeon (Joshua: 10: 12–14)

1817 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over red chalk, heightened with white, squared in black chalk

sheet: 15 7/8 x 24 in. (40.3 x 61 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon

1816 · oil on canvas

overall: 150 x 231 cm (59 1/16 x 90 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Ruins of an Ancient City

1810 · oil on paper, mounted on canvas

Framed: 118.5 x 142 x 8 cm (46 5/8 x 55 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 95.6 x 118.6 cm (37 5/8 x 46 11/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art