print; frontispiece

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Object Type: print; frontispiece
Museum number: 1867,0309.1518
Title: Object: Water Colours
Description: A monument in landscape, tablet lettered with artists' names, palette and brushes above, on ornamental pedestal lettered with two further names, water lilies on the water below on the right, cliff in the right background; after JMW Turner (not in Wilton); frontispiece to 'A collection of water colour drawings in the possession of W. F.' (London: B. Bensley, 1819), being a catalogue of exhibition of Walter Fawkes's collection in London in 1819; later state, with names of 19 artists. 1819 Etching with crayon-manner, printed on thin paper
Producer name: Print made by: Frederick Christian Lewis; After: Joseph Mallord William Turner
School/style
Production date: 1819
Materials
Technique: etching; crayon-manner
Dimensions: Height: 250 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 173 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: After Turner's drawing presented to the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1883.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: Joseph Mallord William Turner; Associated with: Sawrey Gilpin; Associated with: George Garrard; Associated with: Thomas Sidney Cooper; Associated with: John 'Warwick' Smith; Associated with: Joseph Clover; Associated with: Peter De Wint; Associated with: Thomas Heaphy; Associated with: Robert Hills; Associated with: Francis Nicholson; Associated with: Joshua Cristall; Associated with: Luke Clennell; Associated with: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (?); Associated with: W Robson (?); Associated with: John Augustus Atkinson; Associated with: John Varley; Associated with: Samuel Prout; Associated with: Edward Swinburne; Associated with: Julius Caesar Ibbetson; Associated with: Walter Fawkes
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Sir Charles Rugge Price (estate of); Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 21-23.ii.1867); Purchased through: Edward Daniell
Acquisition notes: The BM purchased at the sale from the prints sold in bundles rather than in individual lots. It bought lots 47, 106, 352 and 431 in their entirely. It also made selections from lots 1,2,3,5,11,49,50,75,93,107,108,115,116,162,358. It is not easy from the register to work out which prints belonged to which lot.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1867,0309.1518
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1977,u.409
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