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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21187
People
Charles Turner, British (Woodstock, England 1774 - 1857 London)
After Joseph Mallord William Turner, British (London, England 1775 - 1851 Chelsea, England)
Title
Morpeth
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Liber Studiorum
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1809
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/261491

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on cream wove paper, darkened
Technique
Etching and mezzotint
Dimensions
plate: 21.2 × 29.4 cm (8 3/8 × 11 9/16 in.)
sheet: 26 × 33.7 cm (10 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscription engraved in top margin, centered, and bottom margin, left, centered and right: A // Drawn & Etched by I.M.W. Turner Esqr. R. A. P. P. // MORPETH NORTHD. / London. Published March 20. 1809. by C. Turner, No. 50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square // Engraved by Chas. Turner
  • (not assigned): lower sheet margin, graphite, in hand of Charles Eliot Norton: Second State. / From Ruskin, with his autograph number / C.E.N.
  • inscription: lower right sheet corner, brown ink: 57
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: Of humans[/] pride, see what records, Morpeth / tower, roofless and black . ... / Enoch Phis{?]ters.V. 337 / Illegible]
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with accession number written below in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 21187 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iv
Standard Reference Number
Rawlinson 21

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Susan Norton
Accession Year
1990
Object Number
M21187
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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