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The frontispiece of the Liber Studiorum Turner
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher, engraver)J.C. Easling (active 1807 - 1833) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 210 x 292 mm (plate); 300 x 446 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the image, on a banner on the left, engraved: Engraved by | Wm. Annis | G. Clint | J.C. Easling | R. Dunkarton | H. Day | T. Hodgetts | S.W. Reynolds | W. Say | C. Turner | J.M.W. Turner
just above the image, centre, engraved: This FRONTISPIECE to
within the image, top centre, engraved: LIBER STUDIORUM
below the image, centre, engraved: is most respectfully presented to the Subscribers, by J.M.W. Turner.
just below the image, left, engraved: Drawn Etched and the centre Engraved by I.M.W. Turner Esqr. R.A.P.P.
just below the image, right, engraved: Engraved by I.C. Easling
below the image, centre, engraved: Published May 23. 1812, by I.M.W. Turner, Queen Ann Street West
bottom left, in graphite: 152
bottom, towards right, in graphite: F.1
bottom right, in ink: 6
Verso:
bottom right, in graphite, in a circle: 8
just to the right, in graphite: f1.I | RUD 152
bottom right, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink: T.3.
- Provenance
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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.152
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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. 01.I
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 152
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. 152
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
152. FrontispieceThe same Plate, completed in light and shade, but with no very satisfactory result, the cornice of the frame coming out much better than that of the temple. The names of the engravers are given on the sail with Turner’s at the bottom not as a Painter but as an Engraver - the central picture in this piece being engraved by his own hand, as well as etched.
