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- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
The Great Day of His Wrath
The end of the world, painted as a landslide of fire.
- Work
- John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath
- Artist / creator
- John Martin (British, 1789–1854)
- Origin & date
- Britain, c. 1851–1853
- Held by
- Tate Britain, London
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 12x16 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Martin painted the apocalypse of the Book of Revelation as sheer catastrophic force: whole cities torn from their foundations and hurled into a red abyss, mountains toppling, tiny human figures falling like sparks into the fire. He was the great showman of Romantic doom, wildly popular with the public and sneered at by critics, and this is his masterpiece of destruction — reportedly inspired by crossing the industrial Black Country by night, its furnaces glowing across the dark. Terrible and thrilling in equal measure, it is the sublime pushed to its absolute limit: the moment the whole created order comes apart.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Tate Britain, London’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
