The Bridge and Goats, part IX, plate 43 from "Liber Studiorum"
Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner British
Engraver Frederick Christian Lewis, Senior British
Publisher Joseph Mallord William Turner British
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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 Lewis here added mezzotint and aquatint to evoke a soft late afternoon sun bathing goat herders moving along a wallled road. In the midde distance, a high arched bridge spans a steep gully, with a castle at left looking over a distant plain. The letters "EP" in the upper margin likely stand for Elevated Pastoral and were applied by Turner to landscapes within the set that echo the Arcadian sensibility of Claude.
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