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- After Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- Scott’s Prose Works
- Medium
- Line engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 80 × 117 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1987
- Reference
- T04978
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.
T04978 Paris from Père-la-Chaise engr. W. Miller, pub.1835
Line-engraving 80 × 117 (3 13/16 × 4 5/8) on India paper laid on wove paper 300 × 436 (11 5/8 × 17 3/16); plate-mark 151 × 210 (5 1/16 × 8 1/4)
Engraved inscriptions as on T04976 but with engraver's name altered to ‘W. Miller.’
Lit: As for T04744
For publication details and original watercolour see T04744.
Published in:
Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1986-88, London 1996
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