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Touched proof Mezzotint of Turner's "Stangate Creek, on the River Medway" Turner
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Details
- Artist/maker
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after Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, artist)Thomas Goff Lupton (1791 - 1873) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- mezzotint on wove paper with additions in graphite
- Dimensions
- 205 x 271 mm (plate); 253 x 342 mm (sheet)
- Associated place
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- Europe › United Kingdom › England › Kent › River Medway › River Medway (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, below the plate mark, centre, in graphite: I have been obliged to turn the timber into a Buoy - which make very Black | and highly coloured
Verso:
top left, in graphite: E291.
just below, in ink, struck through: 8B new
just below, in graphite: 39 | R.766(b) 1 of 2
centre, in graphite, a small drawing of the outline of the buoy
- 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.291
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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.8.B
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 291
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 86
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. 291
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)
8 B The Medway . Touched proof. (Turner’s writing below). E -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
291. The Medway. Touched proof. (Turner’s writing below). E
