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Water Mill (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)Robert Dunkarton (1744 - 1811/17) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 209 x 290 mm (plate); 268 x 382 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the plate mark, all etched:
above the image, centre: P
just below the image, left: Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner
just below the image, right: Engraved by R. Dunkarton
below the image, centre: WATER MILL | Published Feby. 1. 1812, by J.M.W. Turner, Queen Ann Street West
bottom right, in ink: 18
Verso:
bottom right, in graphite: 6- fine Proof Very [...]
top right, in graphite: 2/-
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.ED.148
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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. 98
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 148
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 37.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. 148
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)
148. Watermill. (Liber Studiorum). E -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
31 D. Watermill on the torrent of the Grand Chartreuse. (Liber Studiorum.)
