print;
electrotype
- Museum number
- 1861,0518.878
- Title
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Object: Ehrenbreitstein
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Series: The Turner Gallery
- Description
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The Bright Stone of Honour and Tomb of Marceau, from Byron's 'Childe Harold'; landscape with figures sitting beside a fountain in the left foreground, an obelisk with tents surrounding behind and a ruined fortress on the hill above, a town and bridges crossing the river at right; after JMW Turner (Butlin & Joll 361); original edition. 1859-61
Electrotype, printed on chine collé
- Production date
- 1859-1861
- Dimensions
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Height: 176 millimetres (image)
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Height: 320 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 245 millimetres
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Width: 444 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1861,0518.841 for comment.
According to Rawlinson, this print did not appear in 1875 edition of Turner Gallery.
The same subject was engraved by Pye in 1845 (R662).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Childe Harold's Pirgrimage
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0518.878