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Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still Upon Gibeon (Joshua: 10: 12–14)
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Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still Upon Gibeon (Joshua: 10: 12–14)

ca. 1822

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over red chalk, heightened with white, squared in black chalk

Dimensions

sheet: 15 7/8 x 24 in. (40.3 x 61 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About John Martin

1789–1854United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandKingdom of Great BritainUnited Kingdom

Instrumental in the formation of the Society of British Artists. Painted large compositions of biblical and historical subjects. Comment on works: History; Landscapes