Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
border engraved by J.C. Easling (British, active 19th century)
The Frontispiece to Liber Studiorum
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
border engraved by J.C. Easling (British, active 19th century)Published May 23, 1812
The Frontispiece to Liber Studiorum
Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851) border engraved by J.C. Easling (British, active 19th century) →etchingprint
Date
Published May 23, 1812
Medium
Mezzotint and etching in brown on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.9 × 26.7 cm (7 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.); Plate: 21.3 × 29.6 cm (8 7/16 × 11 11/16 in.); Sheet: 29.8 × 44 cm (11 3/4 × 17 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
J. M. W. Turner’s paintings epitomized the sublime, a sense of awe-inspiring beauty beyond simple loveliness. His evocative etching and mezzotint print series, the Liber Studiorum (1807–19), was just as influential. Printed in sepia lines and tonal areas evoking Old Master drawing ink and modeling, Turner’s series of 71 prints is an extended ode to the landscape. The letters above each work designate the subject type, including architectural (A), pastoral (P) and elevated pastoral (EP), and historical (H), marine (M), and mountainous (M). Turner’s exhaustive categories inspired John Constable to produce a further-specialized mezzotint series of 22 English landscapes.
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