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Entrance of Calais Harbour (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, engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 213 x 310 mm (plate); 259 x 356 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › France › Pas-de-Calais › Calais › Calais (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
all within the plate mark, etched:
top centre: M
bottom left: Drawn Etched & Engraved by I.M.W. Turner R.A.
bottom centre: ENTRANCE OF CALAIS HARBOUR | Published Jany. 1. 1816, by Mr. Turner, Queen Ann Street West
bottom right, in ink: 110
Verso:
bottom right, in graphite: R.R. Fourth [?] State
bottom 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.157
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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. 161, RUD.161
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 55.I
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. 161
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 161
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 161
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 157
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. 157
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)
161. 157. Calais Harb.The best marine subject in the Liber; wonderfully beautiful in sense of motion and in the light, through rain, behind the brig coming out of Harbour. Engraved by Turner himself with extreme care.
