M21176: Calm

Identification and Creation

Object Number

M21176

People

Joseph Mallord William Turner, British (London, England 1775 - 1851 Chelsea, England)

Title

Calm

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Liber Studiorum

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1812

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/311297

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching and mezzotint

Dimensions

plate: 22.1 x 30.1 cm (8 11/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
sheet: 44 x 29.8 cm (17 5/16 x 11 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: etched in top margin and in bottom margin, left, center, and right: M // Drawn Etched & Engraved by I.M.W. Turner // CALM. /Picture in the possession of J. M. W. Turner / Published April 23, 1812 by I.M.W. Turner Queen Ann Street West. // 1F.2. by 2 F. 3.
• inscription: lower sheet margin at left, graphite, in hand of Charles Eliot Norton: First State. / Rare.
• inscription: lower right sheet corner, graphite: GM
• collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with accession number written below in graphite:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY
  / 21176 [Lugt 936]
  
  
  
  
  
  

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Susan Norton

Accession Year

1990

Object Number

M21176

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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