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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21189
People
Joseph Mallord William Turner, British (London, England 1775 - 1851 Chelsea, England)
William Say, British, English (Norfolk county, England 1768 - 1834 London, England)
Title
Chain of the Alps from Grenoble to Chamberi
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Liber Studiorum
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1812
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/261934

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on off-white wove paper
Technique
Etching and mezzotint
Dimensions
plate: 20.8 × 29 cm (8 3/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
sheet: 28.5 × 38.7 cm (11 1/4 × 15 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscription engraved in top margin, centered, and bottom margin, left, centered and right: M // drawn & Etched by I.M.W. Turner . Esqr. R. A. P. P. // CHAIN OF ALPS from Grenoble to Chambert / Published May 23, 1812 by I.M.W. Turner Queen Ann Street West. // Engraved by William Say Engraver to the Prince Regent & H. R. H. the duke of Gloucester
  • inscription: alng left side of sheet, graphite: 15 [illegible]
  • inscription: lower sheet margin, graphite, in hand of Charles Eliot Norton: First Stete. / I have never seen a finer impression. / C. E. N.
  • inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: 1446 [underlined] / E E First State / h/cx/- [price code?] / £4-
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with accession number written below in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 21189 [Lugt 936]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/iv
Standard Reference Number
Rawlinson 49

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Susan Norton
Accession Year
1990
Object Number
M21189
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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