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Engraving of Turner's "Chain Bridge over the River Tees" Edward Goodall
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Details
- Artist/maker
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after
Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851)
- Object type
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print
- Material and technique
- engraving, marked with graphite and some scratching out, on paper
- Dimensions
- 241 x 323 mm (sheet; plate mark unidentifiable); 374 x 457 mm (mount)
- Associated place
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- Inscription
- On the front of the mount, in graphite: Ref 152 | Proof touched by Turner | 15.5.70
On the back of the mount, bottom centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate small rectangular paper label, in graphite: Tees
- 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.REF.152
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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 Reference Series Including Temporarily the First Section of the Standard Series (London: Smith, Elder, [1872]), cat. Reference no. 152
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. Reference no. 152
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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152. Fall of Tees.
Proof touched by Turner.
Bramble leaves in corner put in with pencil.