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Mer de Glace, Valley of Chamouni, Savoy Turner
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher, engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 218 x 293 mm (plate); 272 x 372 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Alps › Mont Blanc › Mer de Glace › Mer de Glace (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
all within the plate mark, etched:
top centre: M
bottom centre: Drawn Etched & Engraved by I.M.W. Turner Esqr. R.A. P.P. | Mer de Glace _ Valley of Chamouni _ Savoy. | Published May 23.1812 by I.M.W. Turner Queen Ann Street West.
bottom right, in ink: 45
just to the left, in graphite: 1
Verso, centre left, the Ruskin School's stamp
- 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.RUD.170
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 168, RUD.168
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 50.EP.D
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 168
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 168
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 168
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 170
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. 170
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
168 170.The Mer de Glace of Chamounix; the scene now known to all of us but at that time unfrequented and scarcely ever penetrated into its recesses. Turner sketched it with extreme rapidity and far less than his usual accuracy, addressing himself only to show the reason of the name in the mass of ice arising like a crested breaker on the left. The aiguille drawing is illustrated at length in R.Modern Painters.
