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Mezzotint of Turner's "Peat Bog, Scotland" (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    after Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (etcher, designer)
    Thomas Goff Lupton (1791 - 1873) (engraver)
    after George Clint (1770 - 1854) (engraver)
    Object type
    print
    Material and technique
    etching and mezzotint on paper
    Dimensions
    215 x 292 mm (plate); 338 x 499 mm (sheet)
    Associated people
    after Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto:
    all within the plate mark, etched:
    bottom left: J M W Turner
    bottom centre: 1864 | Peat Bog. Scotd,
    bottom right: Proof

    Verso:
    bottom left, in graphite: "R163"
    centre, in graphite: Lupton's facsimile ingraved [sic] on steel cf F.45
    bottom right, in graphite: F.45 copy c
    bottom right, the Ruskin School's stamp
    just below, in ink: T.1
    Provenance

    Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1878; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    WA.RS.RUD.163
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 45.Copy

    Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 163

    Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Rudimentary no. 163

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

Ruskin's Catalogues

  • Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)

    163. Peat Bog ?

    Next to the brightest I give the darkest of Scottish heather and Scottish Land. Under the influence of such scenery Turner learned to despise the affectations of Italian landscape and the comforts of Dutch, and prepared himself for the higher grandeur and more threatening gloom of the Alps.

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