Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Property of a lady
Palestine
Auction Closed
January 26, 04:31 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a lady
John Martin
Hexham, Northumberland 1789 - 1854 Isle of Man
Palestine
Watercolor over traces of pencil, heightened with scratching out;
signed lower right: J. Martin. 1840
273 by 223 mm; 10⅝ by 8¾ in.
by E. Goodall for Art and Song, 1867
Martin painted this peaceful watercolor in 1840 and in doing so seems to have amalgamated his visions of paradise with his watercolors of Richmond Park, in order to create his own personal utopia.
In 1867, over a decade after Martin's death, the printmaker Edward Goodall made a line engraving after this watercolor. That print was included in Art and Song, an elaborate book made up of poems illustrated with engravings taken from ‘masterpieces of the art of the nineteenth century.’ The volume contained five engravings after Martin and the present image was published under the spurious title Palestine, which relates to Thomas Moore's poem of that name, whose text it accompanied.
We are very grateful Michael Campbell for his help when cataloging this lot.