print
- Museum number
- 1856,0510.35
- Title
- Series: Royal Gallery of British Art
- Description
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The Old Téméraire; a tug boat pulling the man of war down the Thames at left, a crescent moon in the sky above and the sun setting at right, a buoy in the right foreground; after JMW Turner (Butlin & Joll 377); first published state. 1845
Engraving and etching, printed on chine collé
- Production date
- 1845
- Dimensions
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Height: 357 millimetres
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Width: 503 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The same subject was engraved by Willmore again in 1859-61 (R738) and made in chromolithograph by anonymous artist in c.1858 (R862).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Acquisition notes
- According to the register 1856,0510.1 to 48 (proofs of Finden's 'Gallery of British Art') were purchased at an unidentified sale at Sotheby's.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0510.35