Catalogue entry
T05202 Catania, Sicily, for the ‘Sequels to the Liber Studiorum’
Mezzotint 154 × 216 (6 1/16 × 8 1/2) on wove paper 273 × 343 (10 3/4 × 13 1/2); plate-mark 193 × 256 (7 5/8 × 10 1/16)
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1988
Prov: ...; N.W. Lott and H.J. Gerrish Ltd, from whom bt by Tate Gallery
Lit: Rawlinson II, 1913, no.805, late nineteenth-century impression printed in brown ink; for other general literature see T04914-T04916
Rawlinson records (II 1913, p.388) that the copper plate for this print was bought by Colnaghi at the Turner sales of 1873–4. This is confirmed by an annotated copy of Christie's sale catalogue for 24–8 March 1873, in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, in which lot 924, the plate entitled ‘Venice’, is shown as having been purchased by Colnaghi for £36. 15s… (read more)
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