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The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
Apocalyptic imagination of the 79 AD eruption.
- Date
- 1822-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
Tate
In the collection of Tate
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- Tate, London — collection record for John Martin, ‘The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum’; exhibited 1822, oil on canvas, 161 × 253 cm; presented by Robert Vernon 1869, severely damaged in the 1928 Tate flood and conserved for the 2011 exhibition (tate.org.uk)
- Martin Myrone (ed.), ‘John Martin: Apocalypse’ (exh. cat., Tate Britain, 2011)
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