after Joseph Mallord William Turner

Boulevards, Paris

1835

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Artist: After Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Turner’s Annual Tour, 1835: Wanderings by the Seine
Medium: Line engraving on paper
Dimensions: Image: 102 x 138 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1986
Reference: T04723

Catalogue entry

[from] Turner's Annual Tour, 1835: Wanderings by the Seine pub.1835 [T04708-T04726; complete]

Nineteen line-engravings by various engravers, comprising nineteen subjects out of a total of twenty; various sizes; all bearing Turner studio blind stamp
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1986
Prov: Artist's sale, Christie's 23–5 April 1873; ...; N.W. Lott and H.J. Gerrish Ltd, from whom bt by Tate Gallery
Lit: Leitch Ritchie, Turner's Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Seine, 1835; The Rivers of France, 1837 (reprinted with an introduction by Eric Shanes, 1990); Leitch Ritchie, Liber Fluviorum: With a Biographical Sketch by Alaric A. Watts, 1853; M.B. Huish, The Seine and the Loire, 1895; Turner en France, exh. cat., Centre culturel du Marais, Paris 1981

For a discussion of this project, see under T04678-T04697 above. The 1835 volume of Turner's Annual Tour was entitled Wanderings by the Seine from Rouen to the Source. It was also published in London by Longmans as well as by Rittner and Goupil in Paris and A. Asher in Berlin. The volume was dedicated by Charles Heath and A. Asher to ‘Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal of Prussia’.

The engravers responsible for the plates in this group were John Cousen (1804–80), John Smith (c.1798-?), James Tibbetts Willmore (1800–63), William Radclyffe (1783–1855), J. Radclyffe (active 1835), James Baylis Allen (1803–76), Samuel Fisher (active 1830–55), William Miller (1796–1882), Thomas Jeavons (c.1800–67), Thomas Higham (1796–1844) and James Charles Armytage (1802–97).

T04723 Boulevards, Paris engr. T. Higham, pub.1835

Line-engraving 102 × 138 (4 × 5 7/16) on India paper laid on wove paper 301 × 435 (11 7/8 × 17 1/8); plate-mark 152 × 228 (6 × 8 15/16)
Engraved inscriptions as for T04709 but with engraver's name given as ‘T.Higham’.
Lit: Rawlinson 11 1913, no.489, first published state

Published: p.208. Original watercolour: private collection (Wilton 1979, no.987).

Published in:
Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1986-88, London 1996