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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)Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 205 x 289 mm (plate); 302 x 448 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) (publisher)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the plate mark, all etched:
top centre: M
bottom left: Drawn & Etchd by J.M.W. Turner Esqr. R.A. P.P.
bottom right: Engraved by Chas. Turner
bottom centre: In the possession of the Earl of Egremont | London Published Feby. 20. 1808, by C. Turner No. 50, Warren Street Fitzroy Square
Verso:
centre right, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink: T.6.
- 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.154
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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.I
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 154
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. 154
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
154.Completion of the same Plate; given only as an example of the painstaking Marine Studies by which he learned to paint his Trafalgar.
