Mezzotint with etching; engraver's proof on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 25 9/16 × 33 3/16 inches (64.9 × 84.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Engraved inscriptions: below image at center, within crest, "HONI*SOIT*QUI*MAL*Y*PENSE"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.11938
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
religious and mythological subject | dog | man | woman | horse (animal) | rock | cliff | storm | rain | tidal wave | praying | flood | lightning | tree | cave | elephant (animal) | giraffe | deluge | water | death | destruction | the flood and destruction of mankind ~ story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Deluge (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-12-18 - 2019-03-24)Thomas Cole's Journey - Atlantic Crossings (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018-01-29 - 2018-05-13)Thomas Cole's Journey - Atlantic Crossings (The National Gallery, London, 2018-06-13 - 2018-10-07)The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09)The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01)Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22)
Publications:
Andrew Hemingway, Transatlantic Romanticism : British and American art and literature, 1790/1860, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst and Boston, 2015, pp. 177-78, fig. 8,2, NX452.5.R64 T73 2015 (YCBA)