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Berry Pomeroy Castle (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, engraver)Henry Edward Dawe (1790 - 1848) (etcher)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- mezzotint and etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 214 x 291 mm (plate); 296 x 438 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › United Kingdom › England › Devon › Berry Pomeroy › Berry Pomeroy Castle › Berry Pomeroy Castle (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the plate mark, etched:
top centre: E.P.
bottom centre: Drawn & Engraved by I M W Turner E.sqr RA | Publish'd Jan 1.1816 by I.M.W. Turner Queen Ann Street West
bottom, towards right, in graphite: F58
bottom right, in black ink: 109
Verso:
below centre: 10.q
bottom right: A. A. First state [?] | [...]
centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- 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.162
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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. 172, RUD.172
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 58.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. 162
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
