Painting by J. M. W. Turner
The Tenth Plague of Egypt oil painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner . Blending landscape and history painting , it depicts the tenth of the biblical plagues to strike Ancient Egypt in punishment for the enslavement of the Israelites causing the death of all the firstborn sons, including that of Pharaoh who had refused to let the Israelites go free. Turner took inspiration from the Old Master Nicolas Poussin for the background. A terrifying storm whips across the scene, reinforcing the despair of the mothers seen with their dead children.
The backdrop appears to be an Italian hill town, although the towers resemble both those of the Medieval era and the much older Etruscan civilisation . [ 1] [ 2]
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1802 at Somerset House in London , the first to be held following Turner's full election as a member of the Royal Academy . Part of the Turner Bequest of 1856, it is now in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico .[ 3]
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Paintings
Lambeth Palace The Rising Squall Interior of a Romanesque Church c. 1795 –1800)Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow c. 1795 –1800)Diana and Callisto c. 1796 )Fishermen at Sea Interior of a Gothic Church c. 1797 )Limekiln at Coalbrookdale c. 1797 )Moonlight, a Study at Millbank Dunstanburgh Castle Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus c. 1798 )Buttermere Lake Caernarvon Castle c. 1798 )Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland Shipping by a Breakwater Tivoli and the Roman Campagna c. 1798 )View of a Town c. 1798 )Dolbadarn Castle Self-Portrait c. 1799 )View in Wales c. 1799 –1800)A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire c. 1800 )A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance c. 1800 )Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree c. 1800 )View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Fifth Plague of Egypt Dutch Boats in a Gale Fishermen Upon a Lee-Shore in Squally Weather The Tenth Plague of Egypt Ben Lomond Mountains, Scotland Jason Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage Bonneville, Savoy Calais Pier The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon The Destruction of Sodom The Deluge The Shipwreck Windsor Castle from the Thames Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen The Thames at Weybridge Walton Bridges Cliveden on Thames A Country Blacksmith Linlithgow Palace Sun Rising through Vapour Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour The Junction of the Thames and the Medway The Forest of Bere Pope's Villa at Twickenham Margate Sheerness as Seen from the Nore The Unpaid Bill View of Richmond Hill and Bridge Fishing Upon the Blythe Sand The Garreteer's Petition London from Greenwich Park Ploughing Up Turnips The Trout Stream Sun Setting through Vapour The Fish Market at Hastings Beach High Street, Oxford Apollo and Python Somer Hill, Tonbridge Saltash with the Water Ferry Hulks on the Tamar Teignmouth Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps Frosty Morning Dido and Aeneas Dido building Carthage Crossing the Brook The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Raby Castle Dort or Dordrecht The Field of Waterloo Richmond Hill Entrance of the Meuse Rome, from the Vatican George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh The Battle of Trafalgar The Bay of Baiae The Harbour of Dieppe Cologne Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael Rembrandt's Daughter The Chain Pier, Brighton Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Regulus View of Orvieto Vision of Medea The Banks of the Loire The Loretto Necklace Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus The Evening Star Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Pilate Washing his Hands Caligula's Palace and Bridge Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay Staffa, Fingal's Cave The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore St Michael's Mount, Cornwall The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight Line Fishing, Off Hastings Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )Juliet and her Nurse The Fighting Temeraire Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino The Slave Ship Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Venice from the Giudecca Schloss Rosenau Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa The Blue Rigi The Red Rigi Peace – Burial at Sea War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Light and Colour Approach to Venice Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Seascape: Folkestone c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )Queen Mab's Cave The Hero of a Hundred Fights The Wreck Buoy Mercury Sent to Admonish Aeneas The Departure of the Fleet The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
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