Mt. St. Gothard, part II, plate 9 from "Liber Studiorum"
Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner British
Engraved and published by Charles Turner British
Not on view
Turner distilled his ideas about landscape In "Liber Studiorum" (Latin for Book of Studies), a series of seventy prints plus a frontispiece published between 1807 and 1819. To establish the compositions, he made brown watercolor drawings, then etched outlines onto copper plates. Professional engravers usually developed the tone under Turner's direction, and Charles Turner here added mezzotint to describe alpine cliffs plunging down into a steep ravine with a river far below. In the foreground a laden mule stands at one end of a tunnel cut through the rock, with a tiny figure seen at the far end. The letters "MS" in the upper margin indicate Turner's category of Mountainous landscape.
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