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John Martin

The Valley of the Tyne, My Native Country near Henshaw

1842
watercolor, gouache and gum arabic with graphite underdrawing, sanding, and scraping

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The setting of this watercolor is John Martin's native Northumberland, to which he was deeply attached and described having spent time there "exulting in the sublime grandeur of the surrounding beauties of nature."

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