Stock #: CRW0614           $3500 (for the collection of three engravings)
PJP Catalog 57.108

     MARTIN JOHN Illustrator.
EARLY AND PROOF IMPRESSIONS OF THREE MEZZOTINT PLATES BY JOHN MARTIN FOR HIS ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BIBLE. (London  1831 and 1835)   Two images approximately 184 x 289 mm. (7 1/4 x 11 3/8") and one 270 x 400 mm. (10 5/8 x 15 3/4") on larger sheets measuring 356 x 457 mm. (14 x 18") or 508 x 635 mm. (20 x 25").    Three individual engravings.    Attractively matted.          Three short creases in the middle of the image of "The Destroying Angel" otherwise IN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE CONDITION with remarkably rich impressions and virtually without any of the foxing that almost always affects engravings of this sort.

The plates in this group include "The Fall of Man" "Adam and Eve Hearing the Judgment of the Almighty" and (the significantly larger) "The Destroying Angel." All are in early impressions; the first two are in proof impressions in the second state of three. There were a total of 20 plates in this series which was a financial fiasco abandoned before Martin reached the New Testament.

Balston "The Library" 4th Series XIV 411.