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- John Martin 1789–1854
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Frame: 482 × 594 × 18 mm
support: 194 × 264 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Art Fund (Herbert Powell Bequest) 1967
- Reference
- T01007
Catalogue entry
John Martin 1789–1854.
T01007 The Garden of Eden 1821
Inscribed ‘J. Martin. 1821’ b.l.
Sepia wash, 7¿ x 10¿ (19.3 x 26.4).
Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund from the Herbert Powell Bequest 1967.
Coll: Herbert Powell, entrusted to the N.A.C.F. 1929.
Exh: see Atkins T00964.
Perhaps from a series of illustrations to Milton’s Paradise Lost. What seems to be a companion drawing, called ‘Eve at the Fountain’, was sold at Sotheby’s, 27 June 1968 (33).
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1967–1968, London 1968.
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