Name: HENRY JOHN STOCK (1853-1930)
Brand: And the white moon became as blood and the stars of the heavens fell unto the earth (Rev. 6-12.13)
Price: 6500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

HENRY JOHN STOCK (1853-1930)
And the white moon became as blood and the stars of the heavens fell unto the earth (Rev. 6-12.13)

signed and dated 'H J STOCK./ 1910' (lower left) and inscribed 'And the whole moon became as blood-/and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth / Rev 6 - 12.13.' (on an old label attached to the backing)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out on artist's board
13 x 9 in. (33 x 23 cm.)

Acquired from the artist by Francis P. Osmaston, and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 4 November 1994, lot 62, where purchased by the present owner.

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The subject occurs soon after that of God's revelation to the Four and Twenty Elders. The Lamb has opened the six seals and the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have appeared: 'And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind' (Revelation, ch.6, vs.12-13).