R14899: Pandemonium
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- R14899
- People
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John Martin, British (Haydon Bridge, England 1789 - 1854 Douglas, Isle of Man)
J.P. Quilley, British (active c. 1812-42)
- Title
- Pandemonium
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1831
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/248419
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Mezzotint
- Dimensions
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image: 48.2 x 70.5 cm (19 x 27 3/4 in.)
plate: 60.2 × 80.3 cm (23 11/16 × 31 5/8 in.)
sheet: 61.4 × 83.9 cm (24 3/16 × 33 1/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate: lower left: DESIGNED BY JOHN MARTIN. / FOR THE NEW SERIES.; lower right: ENGRAVED BY JOHN MARTIN. / AND I.P. QUILLY.; lower center: PANDEMONIUM / London. Published FebY 1, 1831 by Jennings & Chaplin, 62 Cheapside.; lower left: ANON OUT OF THE EARTH A FABRIC HUGE / ROSE LIKE AN EXHALATION, WITH THE SOUND / OF DULCET SYMPHONIES AND VOICES SWEET, / BUILT LIKE A TEMPLE, WHERE PILASTERS ROUND; lower right: WERE SET, AND DORIC PILLARS OVERLAID / WITH GOLDEN ARCHITRAVE; NOR DID THEY WANT / CORNICE OR FRIEZE, WITH BOSSY SCULPTURES GRAV'N / THE ROOF WAS FRETTED GOLD.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- John Witt Randall, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, his sister, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Balston app. 8 ll; Campbell and Wees 86
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
- Object Number
- R14899
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/06/2017 - 07/27/2017
Verification Level
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