Name: HENRY JOHN STOCK (1853-1930)
Brand: 'And I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth' (Rev. IX - 1)
Price: 11000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

HENRY JOHN STOCK (1853-1930)
'And I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth' (Rev. IX - 1)

signed and dated '1902/ H.J. STOCK.' (lower left) and further signed and inscribed 'And I saw a Star fall. from heaven unto the/ Earth./ Rev. IX.1./ Henry J. Stock' (on an old label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on paper
13¹⁄₈ x 9¹⁄₄ in. (33.3 x 23.5 cm.)

Acquired from the artist by Francis P. Osmaston, and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 November 1994, lot 58, where purchased by the present owner.

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This drawing shows one of the phenomena which result when 'The seven angels which stood before God' sound their trumpets (Revelation chs. 8-9): 'And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened...'