The Deluge towards Its Close ca. 1813 Joshua Shaw American, born England Representations of the Flood, described in Genesis as the overwhelming punishment for humanitys flagrant sins, go back to the early Renaissance. In Shaws day, J. M. W. Turner and Benjamin West also painted this subject. In the Museums terrifying depiction of the darkness and desolation, painted about 1813, Shaw is indebted to Wests treatment of the theme, adopting for the foreground of his own painting Wests 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 Shaws 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.. The Deluge

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The Deluge towards Its Close ca. 1813 Joshua Shaw American, born England Representations of the Flood, described in Genesis as the overwhelming punishment for humanitys flagrant sins, go back to the early Renaissance. In Shaws day, J. M. W. Turner and Benjamin West also painted this subject. In the Museums terrifying depiction of the darkness and desolation, painted about 1813, Shaw is indebted to Wests treatment of the theme, adopting for the foreground of his own painting Wests 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 Shaws 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.. The Deluge

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