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Satan alarm'd

Satan alarm'd

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Satan alarm'd
ArtistEnglish, 1765–1836
CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Satan alarm'd
Datec. 1790s
MediumWatercolor, pen and ink, and gouache, over graphite on laid paper
DimensionsImage: 24 1/4 × 19 7/8 in. (61.6 × 50.5 cm)
 Sheet: 26 7/8 × 22 1/2 in. (68.3 × 57.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Endowment
Object number2014.65
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceSir Gregory Osborne Page-Turner, 4th Bt. (1785-1843), Battlesden, Bedfordshire; private collection, England; [W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, by October 2013]; purchased by MFAH, 2013.
Exhibition History"Vignettes: Masterworks on Paper 1520 to 1870," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 14–April 16, 2017.
Published References London, New Gallery, Catalogue of an Exhibition of a Selection of the Pictures and Drawings of Richard Westall, R.A., 1814, P. 18, Cat. 302: "Satan preparing for Battle, Paradise Lost, Book 4" (lent by Sir G. P. Turner, Bart.). Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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