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The Great Day of His Wrath
is an 1851–1853
oil painting
on
canvas
by the English painter
John Martin
. It has variously been described as showing the "destruction of
Babylon
and the material world by natural cataclysm" (as a response to the emerging industrial scene of
London
), "the collapse of
Edinburgh
in Scotland", and a portion of the Biblical
Book of Revelation
. The painting is held by
Tate Britain
in London.
Painting:
John Martin
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