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Berry Pomeroy Castle (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, engraver)
    Henry Edward Dawe (1790 - 1848) (etcher)
    Object type
    print
    Material and technique
    etching and mezzotint on paper
    Dimensions
    215 x 292 mm (plate); 302 x 433 mm (sheet)
    Associated people
    Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto:
    within the plate-mark, all etched:
    top centre: E.P.
    bottom centre: Drawn & Engraved by IMW Turner Esqr RA | publish'd Jan 1.1816 by I.M.W.Turner Queen Ann Street West

    bottom left, in ink: J.R. 12. Colnaghi 6th Oct. 75. 6,,0,,0
    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.136bis
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

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  • 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. 58.I

    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. 136bis

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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