Solway Moss, part XI, plate 52 from "Liber Studiorum"
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 Lupton here added mezzotint to describe a broad estuary near the English-Scottish border. As cattle are driven across at low tide, smoke rises from low hills in the right distance, and storm clouds move across the sky. The print is lettered "P" in the upper margin, indicating Turner's category of Pastoral landscape.
Artwork Details
- Title: Solway Moss, part XI, plate 52 from "Liber Studiorum"
- Series/Portfolio: Liber Studiorum
- Artist: Drawn and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London)
- Engraver: Thomas Goff Lupton (British, London 1791–1873 London)
- Publisher: Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London)
- Date: January 1, 1816
- Medium: Etching and mezzotint; fifth state of five (Finberg)
- Dimensions: Plate: 8 3/16 × 11 5/16 in. (20.8 × 28.8 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/16 × 13 3/16 in. (25.8 × 33.5 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
- Object Number: 28.97.52
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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