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- Title:
Tomb of Cecilia Metella
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- Date:
- 1819
- Medium:
- Engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 7/8 inches (26.7 × 37.8 cm), Plate: 9 × 12 inches (22.9 × 30.5 cm), Image: 5 5/8 × 8 1/2 inches (14.3 × 21.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "R.153"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "Hakewill's Italy"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower center: "1819"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "('[Borronmouth] May 43)"
Lettered, lower left: "Drawn by J.M.W.Turner R.A., from a finish'd sketch by James Hakewill."; lettered, lower center: "Tomb of Cecilia Metella. | Publish'd as the act directs, Jany1,1819, by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London."; lettered, lower right: "Engrav'd by John Byrne"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.13268
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:36951
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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. 20, 61, no. 93, ND1354.4 B85 (YCBA) [YCBA]