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Ships in a Breeze (the "Egremont Sea Piece" 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)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 204 x 286 mm (plate); 276 x 385 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Recto, below the image, centre, etched: In the Possession of the Earl of Egremont
Verso:
centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink: T.7.
- Provenance
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Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1878; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.RUD.153
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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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. 10.E
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 153
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. Rudimentary no. 153
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
153.Another etching from the same Book; showing the extreme fineness of Turner’s hand. It is one of the least interesting of his Marine Pieces; yet, strange to say, he has taken more pains than usual in the etching of it.
