Description
Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA, British 1775-1851- Sixteen etchings from 'Liber Studiorum'; etchings on wove paper, fourteen bearing the artist's studio blindstamp, three with watermark 'J WHATMAN / 1810', one with watermark 'J WHATMAN / 1809', 21.8 x 28.9 cm. and smaller, sixteen (16). (unframed). Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: Includes plate 22: 'Juvenile Tricks'; 27: 'Windmill and Lock'; 29: 'Marine Dabblers'; 32: 'Young Anglers'; 36: 'From Spensers "Fairy Queen"'; 37: 'Water Mill'; 38: 'Scene in the Campagna'; 45: 'Peat Bog, Scotland'; 47: 'Hedging and Ditching'; 48: 'River Wye, originally called Chepstow Castle'; 56: 'Dumblaine Abbey, Scotland'; 59: 'Ville de Thun, Switzerland'; 61: 'The Tenth Plague of Egypt'; 62: 'Watercress Gatherers'; 64: 'Bonneville, Savoy'; and 66: 'Aesacus and Hesperie'. 'Liber Studiorum' is a collection of seventy-one prints by Turner which he produced and printed between 1807 and 1819. The present prints are examples of Turner's etchings of the scenes, which were later worked into mezzotints by collaborating engravers.
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