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- Title:
The Drawing of the Clyde
- Additional Title(s):
Liber Studiorum
- Date:
- 1809
- Medium:
- Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink First published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 × 17 1/2 inches (30.5 × 44.5 cm), Plate: 8 1/4 × 11 1/2 inches (21 × 29.2 cm), Image: 7 1/8 × 10 3/8 inches (18.1 × 26.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "18"; lower left: "18 I"; lower right: "DVC. V"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "18/1"; lower left: "R 18.I. Fall of the Clyde"; lower center: "Cotswold Gallery. 1924. ex G.E.Blood"
Turner sale mark: J. M. W. Turner (Lugt 1498); collector’s mark: G. E. Blood (Lugt 265c)
Lettered above image: "E.P."; below image: "Drawn & Etched by J.M.W.Turner Esqr. R.A.P.P. | Engraved by C.Turner. | Drawing of the CLYDE. In the possession of J.M.W.Turner. | London, Published March 29, 1809, by C.Turner, No.50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square."; in two columns lower right: "f | I | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.8120
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cascade | light | nudes | river | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26154
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