John Martin, 1789–1854, British, Death of the First Born of Egypt, 1836
- Title:
- Death of the First Born of Egypt
- Date:
- 1836
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and red and gray ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 19 15/16 x 27 15/16 inches (50.6 x 70.9 cm), Sheet: 17 13/16 x 27 1/2 inches (45.2 x 69.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower right: "To Wm. Brockedon Esq | with kindest regards of his atta[...] [remainder cropped off] | friend the artist"
signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: "Martin January 1836."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2003.15
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | babies | children | colonnade | columns | crowd | crown | death | fathers | figures | hieroglyphics | king (person) | kneeling | men | mothers | Old Testament | pharaoh | Pharaoh mourning his dead son ~ the tenth plague | plague | pleading | religious and mythological subject | sadness | staffs | temple | weeping | women | worship
- Associated Places:
- Egypt
- Associated People:
- Moses
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:52853
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