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Charles Turner
1774-1857
Norham Castle on the Tweed / drawn & etched by J.M.W. Turner ; engraved by C. Turner.
London : Publish'd Jan 1. 1816, by J.M.W. Turner, Queen Ann Street West, [1816
mezzotint and etching
image: 178 x 26 mm; plate mark: 209 x 291 mm; sheet: 272 x 370 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2592
Provenance:
Given to Gordon N. Ray by Helen Sutherland; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Inscription:
Inscribed "49 ii/iv" in pencil at lower right.
Notes:
Below caption title: the Drawing is in the Possession of the late Lord Lascells.
Open initial "P" above the image; title in open capitals below the image.
Plate 57 issued in part XII of J.M.W. Turner's Liber studiorum.
Printed in reddish brown ink.
The third state, with two small diagonal strokes in right lower margin in corner of plate; printed on laid paper. Cf. Finberg.
Summary:
Print shows the ruined castle in the center on a hill, overlooking a river; a sloping bank on the left with a hut and two men pushing a boat off the shore; a low bank on the right with cows; some cows and a small boat in the river.
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