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Bonneville (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)Henry Edward Dawe (1790 - 1848) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 214 x 288 mm (plate); 265 x 373 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › France › Rhône-Alpes › Bonneville › Bonneville (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the plate-mark, all etched:
top centre: M.
bottom left: Drawn by I.M.W. Turner
bottom right: Engraved by H. Dawe
bottom centre: BONNEVILLE, SAVOY | Published Jan. 1.1816. by J.M.W. Turner Queen Ann Street West
bottom right, in ink: 20
Verso:
top left, in ink: 166
bottom right, in graphite: E. E - First State
bottom left, in graphite (recent): F64I
left, below centre, 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.RUD.168
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 166, RUD.166
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 64.I
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 166
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 166
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 166
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 168
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. 168
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
166 168.Bonneville, Savoy . We enter now among the Limestone crags and pause in one of Turner’s favourite scenes favourite chiefly from its sadness, and painted by him at least three times, twice in water-colour and once in oil. The only prominent feature in the so called Good Town, its once Seigniorial Castle, the only important object in this picture, has, of course, been now turned by the Good Town into a Gaol: the old bridge has been demolished and a stylish modern Engineer’s one built. The traveller is dependent on the Good Town now only for his lunch, and quarrels with the voitures for staying there ten minutes after the time. I have myself spent a whole Autumn there without seeing half the beauty of its hills and was, for a year, in treaty with the Town Council for the R. purchase of a bit of the crags on the left in this drawing. They suspected me of knowing a gold-mine in them, and at the year’s end, I left them in their suspicion.
