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Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion Version in the Southampton City Art Gallery. Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion is an 1812 oil painting by John Martin.It has been called "the most famous of the British romantic works"; [1] it was the first of Martin's characteristically dramatic, grand, grandiose large pictures, and anchored the development of the style for which Martin would ...
John Martin (painter) John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English painter, engraver, and illustrator. He was celebrated for his typically vast and dramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes. Martin's paintings, and the prints made from them ...
John Martin's painting Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion illustrates an incident from James Ridley's The Tales of the Genii. James Kenneth Ridley (1736 – 1765) was an English author educated at University College, Oxford. He served as a chaplain with the British Army. He is best known for a volume of imitation Orientalia. Writings
John Martin's painting Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion (1812) is based on the eighth tale. [2] Seccombe notes of Ridley's tales that "[t]heir popularity among children outlasted the eighteenth century," as attested by Misnar, a juvenile play written by Charles Dickens based on the sixth tale about 1822. [1]
Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion; W. The World Before the Flood This page was last edited on 21 June 2021, at 15:46 (UTC). Text ...
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197 cm × 303 cm (78 in × 119 in) Location. Tate Britain, London. The End of the World, commonly known as The Great Day of His Wrath, [1] is an 1851–1853 oil painting on canvas by the English painter John Martin. [2] Leopold Martin, John Martin's son, said that his father found the inspiration for this painting on a night journey through the ...
There are different versions of this painting: Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion (Q20354692) (Boston, since 1961), i.e. prior to the 1983 discovery of the Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion (Q7397516) St. Louis Version and the Sadak auf der Suche nach den Wassern des Vergessens (Q106805271) Southhampton Version.