Artwork Details
8-3/16 x 11-3/8 in. (plate) 11-1/2 x 17-1/16 in. (sheet) 14-1/4 x 19-1/4 in. (framed)
Mark DescriptionBlindstamp, lower right; [JMWT] (Lugt 1498). | Collector's Stamp: verso, lower right [KP] (Kurt Pantzer) | T. Dupuy
Accession NumberBequest of Kurt F. Pantzer
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteTurner Sale, 1873.; Miss Smith of Boughty Ferry, Sale (Sotheby's, London, England), 25 July 1949, lot 36; Kurt Pantzer, Indianapolis, Indiana.
This image is modeled on our painting. It was the first "Historical" subject in the Liber, a category that endowed landscapes with noble associations to historical, mythological or biblical events.
For the purpose of the Liber, Turner produced an intermediary drawing that simplified the composition and enhanced the drama of the divine cataclysm, but, inevitably, lost power in the reduction in scale.
"The Fifth is a total failure; the Pyramids look like brick kilns, and the fire running along the ground like burning manure."
-John Ruskin, 1843
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Sugar: Commodity and Confection in Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
February 18, 2022 - August 21, 2022
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