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Water Mill (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher)
    Robert Dunkarton (1744 - 1811/17) (engraver)
    Object type
    print
    Material and technique
    etching and mezzotint on paper
    Dimensions
    209 x 290 mm (plate); 268 x 382 mm (sheet)
    Associated people
    Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
    Inscription
    Recto:
    within the plate mark, all etched:
    above the image, centre: P
    just below the image, left: Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner
    just below the image, right: Engraved by R. Dunkarton
    below the image, centre: WATER MILL | Published Feby. 1. 1812, by J.M.W. Turner, Queen Ann Street West

    bottom right, in ink: 18

    Verso:
    bottom right, in graphite: 6- fine Proof Very [...]
    top right, in graphite: 2/-
    centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
    Provenance

    Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    WA.RS.ED.148
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  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 98

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 148

    Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 37.III

    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. Educational no. 148

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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