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John Martin

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

ca. 1822
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over red chalk, heightened with white, squared in black chalk
40.3 × 61 cm (15.9 × 24 in)

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