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Engraving of Turner's "Chain Bridge over the River Tees" W. R. Smith
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Details
- Artist/maker
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W. R. Smith (active 19th century) (engraver)after Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- engraving on Chine collé
- Dimensions
- 250 x 326 mm (plate); 322 x 470 mm (sheet)
- Associated place
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- Europe › United Kingdom › England › River Tees › River Tees (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, all below the image, engraved:
left: Drawn by J M W Turner R A
right: Engraved by W R Smith
Verso:
top left, in graphite, struck through: 44
just below, in graphite: E.282 E.283
top left, in ink, struck through: 76
centre right, 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.283
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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. XII.7.G
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 283
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. 283
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)
7 G Upper Fall of Tees , with Chain Bridge. (Turner). E -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
283. Upper Fall of Tees, with Chain Bridge. (Turner). E
