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T04820 The Eddystone Lighthouse, from ‘Marine Views’ engr. T. Lupton, pub.1824
Mezzotint 210 × 313 (8 1/4 × 12 5/16) on laid paper 338 × 490 (13 5/16 × 19 5/16); plate-mark 266 × 360 (10 1/2 × 14 3/16); watermark ‘DUPUY AUVERGNE’
Engraved inscriptions: ‘Drawn by J.M.W. Turner Esq.r R.A.’ below image b.l., ‘Engraved on Steel by Tho.s Lupton.’ below image b.r., ‘THE EDYSTONE LIGHT HOUSE. | PLATE I. OF A SERIES OF MARINE VIEWS, BY J.M.W. TURNER, R.A. PUBLISHING SINGLY. | London, Published March 1, by W.B. Cooke, 9 Soho Square.’ below image at centre
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1986
Prov: ...; N.W. Lott and H.J. Gerrish Ltd, from whom bt by Tate Gallery
Exh: Tate Gallery 1989–90 (43, repr.)
Lit: Rawlinson II 1913, no.771, third state; Lyles and Perkins 1989, pp.54–5, no.43, repr… (read more)
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