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- After Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- Scott’s Poetical Works
- Medium
- Line engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 80 × 148 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1988
- Reference
- T05141
Catalogue entry
[from] Scott's ‘Poetical Works’ pub.1833–4 [T04947-T04960; T05134-T05145; complete]
Twelve line-engravings, by various engravers and in various states, comprising twelve subjects out of a total of twenty-four; various papers and sizes; some stamped with Turner studio blind stamp
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1988
Prov: ...; N.W. Lott and H.J. Gerrish Ltd, from whom bt by Tate Gallery
Lit: Mordechai Omer, Turner and the Poets, exh. cat., Marble Hill House 1975; Gerald Finley, Landscapes of Memory: Turner as Illustrator to Scott, 1980; Turner in Scotland, exh. cat., Aberdeen Art Gallery 1982; Andrew Wilton, Turner in his Time, 1987; John Gage. J.M.W. Turner: 'A Wonderful Range of Mind', 1987
For details of the series see introduction to T04947-T04960. The engravers responsible for the plates in this group were: William Miller (1796–1882), Edward Goodall (1795–1870), Robert Wallis (1794–1878), James Tibbetts Willmore (1800–63) and William John Cooke (1797–1865).
T05141 Dryburgh Abbey engr. W. Miller, pub.1833
Line-engraving 80 × 148 (3 1/8 × 5 13/16) on India paper laid on wove paper 276 × 434 (10 7/8 × 17 1/16); plate-mark 150 × 207 (5 7/8 × 8 1/8)
Engraved inscriptions: ‘J M W Turner R A’ below image b.l., ‘W. Miller.’ below image b.r., ‘Edinburgh 1833, R, Cadell, & Moon, Boys & Graves, London’ below image at bottom centre; Turner studio blind stamp b.l. of image
Prov: As for T05134
Exh: Tate Gallery 1989–90 (74, repr.)
Lit: As for T04950
For publication details and original watercolour see T04950
Published in:
Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1986-88, London 1996
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