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View at the museum ↗From Spenser's Fairy Queen, plate 36 from Liber Studiorum
Joseph Mallord William Turnerpublished June 1811
- Attribution
- Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851) engraved by Thomas Hodgetts (English, active 1801–1846)
- Medium
- Mezzotint and etching in brown on ivory wove paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 18.2 × 26.4 cm (7 3/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Plate: 20.9 × 29.1 cm (8 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 30.8 × 44.3 cm (12 3/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
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J. M. W. Turner is known primarily as a painter, but demonstrated his passion for landscape through printmaking in this mezzotint, which comes from a series of 71 prints called Liber Studiorum (Book of Studies) . Turner categorized the types of landscape with a lettering system at the top of each sheet: A (Architectural), H (Historical), M (Marine or Mountainous), P (Pastoral), and the more obscure EP (Epic Pastoral). The play of light and shade on the water, mountains, fields, and distant views exemplifies Turner’s approach to landscape as an emotive interpretation of reality rather than a topographically accurate one. He chose to use mezzotint, an engraving process that creates tonal gradations similar to the effects of oil painting, to emphasize these light and dark effects.
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