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After John Martin
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- After John Martin
- Heaven and the River of Bliss
- oil on panel
Provenance
Sale, London, Bonhams, 7 December 1972, lot 10, according to markings on the reverse.
Catalogue Note
A copy, with some minor differences in the foreground, after John Martin's mezzotint engraving dated 1824, and issued in 1825 as an illustration to John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, published by Septimus Prowett, London.1
1. See M. J. Campbell, John Martin 1789-1854, Creation of Light, Madrid 2006, pp. 535-536, reproduced p. 199 and p. 201.