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The Temple of Minerva Medica (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)Robert Dunkarton (1744 - 1811/17) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 207 x 288 mm (plate); 244 x 330 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Lazio › Roma (Rome) › Rome › Esquiline nymphaeum › Esquiline nymphaeum (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
all within the plate mark, etched:
top centre: E P
bottom left: Drawn & Etched by J M W Turner R A P P
bottom right: Engraved by R Dunkarton
bottom centre: Published Jany 1 1811 by Mr Turner Queen Ann Street West
bottom right, in ink: 28
Verso:
centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink: T.5
- 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.RUD.173bis
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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. 23.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. Rudimentary no. 173bis
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
