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This image is modeled on our painting. It was the first "Historical" subject in the Liber, a category that endowed landscapes with noble associations to historical, mythological or biblical events.
For the purpose of the Liber, Turner produced an intermediary drawing that simplified the composition and enhanced the drama of the divine cataclysm, but, inevitably, lost power in the reduction in scale.
"The Fifth is a total failure; the Pyramids look like brick kilns, and the fire running along the ground like burning manure."-John Ruskin, 1843
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