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Object Type
Museum number: 1849,0512.608
Title: Object: The Tenth Plague of Egypt; Series: Liber Studiorum
Description: Buildings and towers on the right and a temple high up on the far left with trees below; in the foreground women in various postures, one stooping over a dead child; lightning overhead; touched proof. 1 January 1816 Mezzotint and etching
Producer name: Print made by: Joseph Mallord William Turner; Print made by: William Say
School/style
Production date: 1816
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: mezzotint; etching
Dimensions: Height: 207 millimetres; Width: 288 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Unlike Finberg, Rawlinson does not describe this proof as being touched.
Bibliographic references: Rawlinson 1906 / Turner's Liber Studiorum (61) (engraver's proof (a)); Finberg 1924 / The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum with a new catalogue raisonné (61) (engraver's proof (a))
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: William Beckford; Previous owner/ex-collection: William Say (L.2651)
Acquisition date: 1849
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1849,0512.608

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