Death of the First Born, John Martin, 1789–1854, British, 1836, Mezzotint on thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper, Sheet: 21 7/8 × 30 inches ( × cm) and Image: 19 1/8 × 28 13/16 inches ( × cm), child, cloud, crying, death, jug, lightning, man, mourning, palace, pharaoh, pillar, plague, religious and mythological subject, temple, the plague of the first-born: the destroying angel passes through the land and kills every Egyptian first-born of man and animal, tree, weeping, woman

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