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- Title:
The Bridge in Middle Distance
- Additional Title(s):
The Sun between Trees
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1808
- Medium:
- Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 3/4 inches (26.4 × 37.5 cm), Plate: 8 1/4 × 11 3/8 inches (21 × 28.9 cm), Image: 7 1/8 × 10 3/8 inches (18.1 × 26.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "13.I"; lower right: "Dup. I."; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "13.I | (C.J.Palmer 1868) | (Sir John Hippisley)"; lower right: "Cotswold Gallery, 1924, ex G.E.Blood, CJ Palmer & Sir John Hippisley"
Collector’s mark: John Stuart Hippisley (Lugt 1535); collector's mark: Charles J. Palmer (Lugt 2946); collector's mark: G. E. Blood (Lugt 265c)
Lettered above image: "EP"; below image: "Drawn & Etchd by J.M.W.Turner Esqr. R.A.P.P. | Engraved by Chas.Turner | London, Published June 10, 1808, by C.Turner, No.50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square."; scratched lettering lower left: "Proof"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.8114
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | bridge (built work) | country (rural landscape) | landscape | musician | river | trees
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26137
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Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Duncan Bull, Classic ground : British artists and the landscape of Italy, 1740-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1981, pp. 7, 20, 26, no. 7, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA) [YCBA]