John Martin
Landscape with Adonis and Aphrodite

ArtistBritish, 1789–1854
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Landscape with Adonis and Aphrodite
Datec. 1819
MediumSepia watercolor on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 8 × 10 1/2 in. (20.3 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Eugenia Kiesling and in memory of Nancy Lou Hunt Kiesling
Object number2018.235
Non exposé

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ProvenancePrivate collection, UK; [sale, Holloway’s Auctioneers, Bambury, Antiques and Fine Art, February 28, 2018, lot 332]; [Andrew Clayton-Payne & Co., Ltd., London], 2018; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Exhibition Historynone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in ink, bottom right corner: J. Martin
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Catalogue raisonnénone known
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