Mill Near the Grand Chartreuse, Dauphiny, part XI, plate 54 from "Liber Studiorum"

Designed and published by Joseph Mallord William Turner British
 Etched and engraved by Henry Edward Dawe 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 usually etched the design onto a copper plate. In this case, Dawe is believed to have carried out that first step and then developed the tone with mezzotint, under Turner's direction. The artist had toured the mountains above Grenoble, France in 1802, and used sketches from that tour to develop this dramatic image of a narrow gorge, framed by cliffs and trees. At center, a thin wooden bridge spans the stream near a mill, and the letter "M" in the upper margin indicates Turner's category of Mountainous landscape.

Mill Near the Grand Chartreuse, Dauphiny, part XI, plate 54 from "Liber Studiorum", Designed and published by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London), Etching and mezzotint; first state of four

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