Tempera on wood
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ernest-m-dinkel-1010" aria-label="More by Ernest M. Dinkel" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ernest M. Dinkel</a>
Deluge
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1929
adults
aerial view
animals: mammals
Bible: Old Testament
cart
chariot
elephant
emotions, concepts and ideas
figure
flood
Flood
formal qualities
island
people
rain
religion and belief
seascapes and coasts
society
transport: land
weather
painting tempera wood
The Deluge
support: 472 × 468 mm
frame: 593 × 594 × 55 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1929
<p><b>N04477</b> THE DELUGE <i>c.</i> 1929
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Tempera on mahogany, 18 1/2×18 1/4 (47×46).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1929.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1929 (675).</p>
<p>Painted in egg <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/tempera" title="Glossary definition for 'Tempera'"><span>tempera</span></a> and finished with a special lacquer varnish which the artist was experimenting with about that time. (Information from the artist, 1956.)</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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adults aerial view animals: mammals Bible: Old Testament cart chariot elephant emotions, concepts and ideas figure flood Flood formal qualities island people rain religion and belief seascapes and coasts society transport: land weather