print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.6457
- Title
- Object: The Druid's Altar
- Description
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A druid standing in the left foreground, arms outstretched, wtih figures kneeling beside him, two playing lyres; crowds process towards them down a path zig-zagging around the side of a cliff, some gathering mistletoe from a tree on the right; in a hilly wooded landscape with stonehenge in the distance; open-letter state.
Mezzotint with etching
- Production date
- 1830s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 150 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 228 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also 'John Martin: Visionary Printmaker', p. 195
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.6457
