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- After Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- Scott’s Prose Works
- Medium
- Line engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 85 × 130 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1987
- Reference
- T04985
Catalogue entry
[from] Scott's Prose Works pub.1834–6 [T04727-T04763; T04961-T04994; complete]
Thirty-four line-engravings by various engravers, comprising thirty-four subjects out of a total of forty; various sizes
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1987
Prov: ...; Waltham Abbey Historical Trust, from whom bt by Tate Gallery
Lit: As for T04727-T04763 above
For details of the series see introduction to T04727-T04763. The engravings in this set were all bought unmounted from the Waltham Abbey Historical Trust, along with impressions from Scott's Poetical Works (see introduction to T04947-T04960).
The engravers responsible for the plates in this group were: William Miller (1796–1882), who executed the majority of the plates, John Horsburgh (1791–1869), who produced seven plates in this group, William Richardson (active 1836–77) and Edward Goodall (1795–1870), who each produced one plate.
T04985 Edinburgh from St Anthony's Chapel engr. W. Miller, pub.1836
Line-engraving 86 × 130 (3 3/8 × 5 1/8) on India paper laid on wove paper 300 × 435 (11 13/16 × 17 1/8); plate-mark 151 × 209 (5 15/16 × 8 1/4)
Engraved inscriptions: ‘J.M.W. Turner, R.A.’ below image b.l., ‘W. Miller.’ below image b.r., ‘Edinburgh, Published 1836, by Robert Cadell; & Hodgson & Graves, London.’ below image at bottom centre
Lit: As for T04750
For publication details and original watercolour see T04750.
Published in:
Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1986-88, London 1996
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