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The Fifth Plague of Egypt (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 16)

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SKU: TRG-PRINT-METM-382920 Category: Giclee Prints Tags: Landscape, Religious, Storms Artist: Turner, J.M.W.

Tags: Landscape, Religious, Storms

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The Fifth Plague of Egypt gives a storm-filled landscape biblical drama. Although the title calls it The Fifth Plague of Egypt, the Metropolitan Museum identifies the depicted hail and fire with the seventh plague described in Exodus. Turner makes destructive weather the vehicle of the historical subject, bringing the scene’s larger forces into contact with the vulnerability of life below.

Published on June 10, 1808, the etching and mezzotint was designed and etched by J. M. W. Turner and engraved and published by Charles Turner. This impression is the first of three states in Liber Studiorum. The distinction between title and represented episode matters, but it does not lessen the image’s force. The print treats landscape as an active participant in a sacred narrative, allowing the storm to carry much of the event’s scale and intensity.

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