Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
Exhibition
JMW Turner with Lamin Fofana: Dark Waters
Experience the power of the sea through paintings, sketches and an immersive sound environment
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 151 × 213 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Transferred from the British Museum 1990
- Reference
- T05726
Display caption
In the mid-1820s Turner worked on a set of twelve mezzotint plates, known as the Little Liber, or So-called Sequels to the Liber Studiorum. Relatively little is known about the circumstances surrounding the creation of the images, which all explore the dramatic effects of natural light.
At least half of subjects are concerned with direct observation of the sea. The watercolour studies on which the prints were based are unusually freely executed and unresolved. When painting for translation into black and white prints Turner usually provided a greater level of detail to guide the engravers.
Gallery label, July 2008
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