Dunstanborough Castle, part III, plate 14 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 the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, overlooking the Northumbrian coast. Close to the water, light shines from a cottage window, and the letter "A" in the upper margin indicates Turner's category of Architectural landscape.
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