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Isis (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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Curator’s description:
Description
According to Cook and Wedderburn (XXI.305), the Supplementary Cabinet was 'a cabinet which Ruskin placed in the School but did not fill'; the examples which they listed were placed there shortly before their catalogue was published in 1906.
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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
- 206 x 288 mm (plate); 286 x 409 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › United Kingdom › England › River Thames › River Thames (subject)
- Europe › United Kingdom › England › Surrey › Weybridge › Weybridge (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
all within the plate mark, etched:
top centre: E P
bottom left: Drawn & Etched by I.M.W. Turner Esq. R.A. P.P.
bottom right: Engraved by W. Say Engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester
bottom centre: ISIS | Picture in the Possession of the Earl of Egremont | 3 Feet by 4 Feet | London. Pub. Jan. 1. 1819 by I.M.W. Turner Queen Ann Str. West.
top right, in graphite: 68
Verso:
bottom left, in ink: Mary Constance Clarke [Lugt 449]
bottom right, a stamp in black ink depicting a tower in a double oval frame [Lugt 2758, Charles Stokes]
centre right, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink: T.2
- Provenance
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Charles Stokes, presumably until his death in 1853
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.SUP.167
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 68.I
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. Supplementary no. 167
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
