M21187: Morpeth
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M21187
- People
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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
- 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
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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
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- 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]
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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]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- John Ruskin; to Charles Eliot Norton, by descent; to Richard Norton, his son, by descent; to Susan Norton, his daughter, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1990
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
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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