Literature

Richard R. Brettell and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-century art in the Norton Simon Museum, New Haven, 2006, fig. 13a

Iconclass

71B33 The Flood and destruction of mankind ~ story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17)

Other works by William Etty

Reclining nude

Allegory

The Three Graces

Perseus and Andromeda
1840

Pluto Carrying off Proserpine