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John Ruskin described Martin’s work as “mere manufacture, as much makeable to order as a tea-tray or a coal-scuttle.” Romantic Landscape, 1836. Pen and ink wash drawing. An exhibition of Martin’s ...
John Martin's vast 1821 painting The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum nearly met its own end while stored at the Tate when the river burst its banks.