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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R14899
People
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
print
Date
1831
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/248419

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Mezzotint
Dimensions
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
  • 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
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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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