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Windmill and Lock (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)William Say (1768 - 1834) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 210 x 293 mm (plate); 271 x 379 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: P
bottom left: Drawn & Etched by I.M.W. Turner
bottom right: Engraved by W. Say Engraver to his H.I .H.the Duke of Gloucester
bottom centre: FROM A PICTURE IN THE POSSESSION OF I.M.W.TURNER R.A. | Published June 1.1811.by I.M.W. Turner, Queen Ann Street West
top right, in graphite: 6
- 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.138
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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. 88
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 138
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 31.C
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 27.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. 138
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, 2nd ed. (1874)
138. Windmill. (Liber Studiorum). E -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
31 C. Windmill and lock on an English canal. (Liber Studiorum.)
