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Etching of Turner's "Tornaro" Louis Alfred Brunet-Desbaines
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Curator’s description:
Description
As the unframed examples had not been given an order by Ruskin, they have been given arbitrary accession numbers based upon their position in Cook and Wedderburn's list of the unframed objects (XXI.308) for the purposes of the current catalogue.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Louis Alfred Brunet-Desbaines (1845 - 1939) (etcher)after Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 250 x 190 mm (plate); 448 x 318 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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London Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co. (publisher)
- Inscription
- Recto, all within the plate mark, etched:
in the image, bottom right: ABrunet Debaines [the 'A' lacking its cross-bar]
in the border, top left: London.Published April 4th..1881, by P.&D. Colnaghi 13 & 14, Pall Mall, East.
in the border, bottom, towards right: Tornaro -
just above and to the right, a blind stamp, the first two lines arranged in an oval around the third: · PRINTSELLERS · | ASSOCIATION | HO
- 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.UF.42
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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: 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. Unframed
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
