after Joseph Mallord William Turner

Catalogue entry

[from] Picturesque Views in England and Wales pub.1827–38 [T04503-T04612; T05081-T05104; T05873; complete]

Twenty-four line-engravings, by various engravers and in various states, comprising twenty-four subjects out of a total of ninety-six (see also T04503-T04612 above); various papers and sizes; some annotated in pencil with initials of unidentified collector ‘FHB’
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1988
Prov: ...; N.W. Lott and H.J. Gerrish Ltd, from whom bt by Tate Gallery (earlier provenance given in individual entries where known)
Lit: As for T04503-T04612

For the publishing history of this series, see under T04503-T04612.

T05092 Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire engr. T. Higham, pub.1833

Line-engraving 169 × 229 (6 5/8 × 9) on India paper laid on wove paper 436 × 598 (17 1/8 × 23 9/16); plate-mark 249 × 304 (9 13/16 × 12)
With faint trace of Turner studio blind stamp
Prov: As for T05083
Exh: Tate Gallery 1989–90 (21, repr.)
Lit: Rawlinson I 1908, no.269, first published state

Published in part XVII, no.1. Original watercolour: private collection (Shanes 1979, no.54, repr. in col.; Wilton 1979, no.845).

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

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