Frontispiece to the Liber Studiorum
Primary
Joseph Mallord William Turner
(London, England, 1775–Chelsea, England, 1851)
NationalityEnglish, Europe
Date1812
MediumEtching, mezzotint, and aquatint (by I.C. Easling), printed in sepia
DimensionsSheet: 10 7/8 × 16 1/4 in. (27.6 × 41.3 cm)
Additional Dimension: 8 3/8 × 11 9/16 in. (21.2 × 29.3 cm)
Additional Dimension: 8 3/8 × 11 9/16 in. (21.2 × 29.3 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, gift of Leo Steinberg, 1997.415
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1997.415
On View
Not on viewInspired by Richard Earlom’s mezzotint reproductions of Claude Lorrain’s Liber Veritatis, Turner produced his own series of 71 landscape prints divided into six categories: historical, mountainous, pastoral, epic pastoral, marine and architectural. The prints, published between 1807 and 1819, functioned both as an advertisement to potential patrons of his skill and range and as a pedagogical tool for younger artists.
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