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Dunstanborough Castle (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher)
    Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) (engraver)
    Object type
    print
    Material and technique
    etching and mezzotint on paper
    Dimensions
    207 x 291 mm (plate); 253 x 338 mm (sheet)
    Associated people
    Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) (publisher)
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto:
    all within the plate mark, etched:
    top centre: A
    bottom left: Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner Esqr. R.A. P.P.
    bottom right: Engraved by C. Turner
    bottom centre: Dunstanborough Castle, the Picture in the possession of W. Penn Esqr. | London Published June. 10. 1808. by C. Turner No. 50. Warren Street, Fitzroy Square
    just within the plate, bottom left: Proof

    bottom right, in ink: 93

    Verso:
    centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
    just below, in ink: T.4.
    centre right, a second impression of the Ruskin School's stamp
    Provenance

    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.156
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

    building

    landscape

  • 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. 14.I

    Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 156

    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. 156

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

Ruskin's Catalogues

  • Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)

    156. Dunstanborough ?

    Completion of the same subject; quite one of the most characteristic pieces of our wild and impressive Northern Landscape, seen under quiet evening-light. I often wonder that Turner did not take more pains with the near sea which is curiously hard at the edges of the waves; and yet, practically, I never tire of the picture.

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