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- Title:
Château of Amboise
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1833
- Medium:
- Line engraving and graphite; touched proof on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Plate: 6 x 8 7/8in. (15.2 x 22.5cm), Sheet: 8 3/4 x 12in. (22.2 x 30.5cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: “R.438 (a)”; center left: “This wants more cross-work - not the little black | bits, - they do much harm - behind the light pieces | of paper which must be all | put down.”; lower left: “The same | more like layers of stone”; upper right: “There is so much of a drawn | line that if the same cannot | be rendered more gradated, | some light clouds must be | just burnished out”; center right: “too distanc’d”; lower center: Chateau of Amboise”; lower center: “too dark”; lower right: “Pray send me back all | my touched proofs”
Turner sale mark: J. M. W. Turner (Lugt 1498); collector's mark: W. G. Rawlinson (Lugt 2624)
Lettered, lower left: "J.M.W. Turner"; lettered, lower right: "James B. Allen"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.7483
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | bridge | château | river
- Associated Places:
- Amboise | Centre | Château d'Amboise | Europe | France | Indre-et-Loire | Loire
- 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:5724
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