Joshua Shaw, 1813 - The Deluge towards Its Close - fine art print

About the artpiece, which has the title "The Deluge towards Its Close"

This more than 200 year old masterpiece The Deluge towards Its Close was painted by Joshua Shaw. The 200 year-old version of the masterpiece measures the size of 48 1/4 x 66 in (122,6 x 167,6 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the North American painter as the medium of the artwork. Furthermore, this artpiece can be viewed in in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. This modern art artwork, which belongs to the public domain is included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of William Merritt Chase, 1909. : Gift of William Merritt Chase, 1909. The alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with a ratio of 1.4 : 1, meaning that the length is 40% longer than the width.

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• Metal (aluminium dibond print): These are metal prints on aluminium dibond with an outstanding depth effect. For our Print On Aluminum Dibond, we print your selected work of art on the surface of the aluminum composite. Colors are luminous, the fine details of the print appear very clear, and you can perceive a matte appearance of the art print surface. The direct print on aluminium is the most popular entry-level product and is a truly stylish way to display fine art prints, because it draws attention on the whole artwork.
• Canvas print: The canvas direct print is a printed cotton canvas mounted on a wood frame. It creates the typical look of three-dimensionality. Your canvas print of this work of art will allow you to transform your into a large size work of art. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight, which means that it is easy and straightforward to hang up your Canvas print without the support of extra wall-mounts. Therefore, canvas prints are suitable for all kinds of walls.
• The poster print on canvas material: Our poster print is a UV printed sheet of canvas paper with a granular surface texture, that resembles the actual work of art. The poster print is suited for putting the fine art print with a customized frame. Please note, that depending on the size of the poster we add a white margin 2-6cm around the print to facilitate the framing with your custom frame.
• Printed acrylic glass (with real glass coating on top): A glossy acrylic glass print, often labelled as a print on plexiglass, makes an original into beautiful décor.

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Artwork description by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

Representations of the Flood, described in Genesis as the overwhelming punishment for humanity’s flagrant sins, go back to the early Renaissance. In Shaw’s day, J. M. W. Turner and Benjamin West also painted this subject. In the Museum’s terrifying depiction of the darkness and desolation, painted about 1813, Shaw is indebted to West’s treatment of the theme, adopting for the foreground of his own painting West’s uprooted tree, which lies diagonally on the earth, surrounded by the ghastly bodies of the drowned, and festooned with the limp carcass of a gigantic snake. West seems not to have minded Shaw’s borrowing and wrote to him in high praise of this powerfully romantic and emotional picture. Joshua Shaw was an English artist who was forty when he came to this country, four years after painting "The Deluge". He had been well trained and enjoyed considerable success in the field of landscape painting.