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Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
The Tenth Plague of Egypt, exhibited 1802
Oil on canvas; 56 1/2 x 93 in. (142 x 236 cm)
Tate, London, Turner Bequest, 1856
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Turner's biblical subject, the death of all first-born sons in Egypt as punishment for the enslavement of the Israelites, represents his essay into the Sublime mode of historical landscape, as embodied in the work of Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). An engraving of this composition later served to illustrate the category of "Historical Sublime" in Turner's Liber Studiorum (1807–19), a compendium of landscape imagery.
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