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Procris and Cephalus (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher)George Clint (1770 - 1854) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 215 x 291 mm (plate); 302 x 446 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the plate-mark, all etched:
top centre: H
bottom left: Drawn & Etched by I.M.W.Turner
bottom right: Engraved by G.Clint
bottom centre: Procris and Cephalus. | Published Feby. 14 1812, by I.M.W.Turner Queen Ann Street West.
bottom right, in ink: 35
Verso:
bottom left, in graphite: 1st
towards bottom left, the Ruskin School's stamp
- Provenance
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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.150
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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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. 100
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 150
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 41.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. 150
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
100 Cephalus and Procris. (Liber Studiorum) . E -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
150. Cephalus and Procris. (Liber Studiorum). E
