- Title:
- The Deluge
- Part Of:
- Date:
- between 1813 and 1823
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint; modern impression on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 3/8 × 15 1/4 inches (28.9 × 38.7 cm), Plate: 8 7/8 × 11 3/4 inches (22.5 × 29.8 cm), Image: 7 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (20 × 27.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "88"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "The Deluge | unpublished Liber | Engraved by J.M.W. Turner"; lower center: "Reprint from old Plate | in the 1870s | (from Colnaghi's Stock)"; lower right: "Meatyard Dec. 1923"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.13967
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cave | cliff | death | destruction | dog | elephant (animal) | flood | giraffe | horse (animal) | lightning | man | praying | rain | religious and mythological subject | storm | the flood and destruction of mankind ~ story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17) | tidal wave | tree | water | woman
- Associated People:
- Noah
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38728
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Deluge (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-12-18 - 2019-03-24) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
American Artists Abroad (Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1985-06-02 - 1985-09-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Franny Moyle, Turner : The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner, Penguin Books, New York, 2016, p. 222, NJ18 T85 M79 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]