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Morpeth, Northumberland (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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Curator’s description:
Description
According to Cook and Wedderburn (XXI.305), the Supplementary Cabinet was 'a cabinet which Ruskin placed in the School but did not fill'; the examples which they listed were placed there shortly before their catalogue was published in 1906.
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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
- 207 x 287 mm (plate); 242 x 331 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › United Kingdom › England › Northumberland › Morpeth › Morpeth (subject)
- 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 Chas. Turner
bottom centre: MORPETH NORTHD. | London. Published March 19. 1809 by C. Turner. No. 50. Warren Street, Fitzroy Square
bottom left, in graphite: J.R.
bottom right, in ink: 55
Verso, bottom right, in graphite: In J [?]
- 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 1906; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.SUP.168
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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. 21.I
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. Supplementary no. 168
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
