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Object Type
Museum number: 1902,0514.1252.1-51
Description: "Outlines in Lithography, from A Small Collection of Pictures. For Private Circulation" (Yarmouth, Dawson Turner) 1840; folio; containing 51 lithograph plates by J. Graf after drawings by daughters of Dawson and Mary Turner showing a variety of landscapes (particularly surrounding Norwich), genre and biblical scenes after artists including Bellini, Crome, Van Dyck and Teniers. Bound with letterpress descriptions of each plate by Mary and Dawson Turner with dedication leaf to Gurney Turner, Esq., Surgeon in the Service of the Honourable the East-India Company (son of Mary and Dawson Turner). Original cloth binding, stamped in blind and gilt. Lithographs
Producer name: Published by: Dawson Turner; Published by: Mary Turner; After: Melchior d'Hondecoeter; Print made by: J Graf; After: Giovanni Bellini; After: Adriaen Brouwer; After: Jan Breughel the Elder; After: Agostino Carracci; After: Gaspar de Crayer; After: John Crome; After: Aelbert Cuyp; After: Gerard Dou; After: Jan Fyt; After: Jean Baptiste Greuze; After: Guido Reni; After: Cornelis de Heem; After: Meindert Lubbertsz Hobbema; After: Hans Holbein the Younger; After: Jan Boeckhorst; After: Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo; After: Lodovico Mazzolino; After: Pierre Mignard; After: Isaak de Moucheron; After: Thomas Phillips; After: Pierre Paul Prud'hon; After: Adam Pijnacker; After: Peter Paul Rubens; After: Francesco Solimena; After: Jan Havicksz. Steen; After: David Teniers the Younger; After: Titian; After: Anthony van Dyck; After: Leonardo da Vinci; After: Adriaen van der Werff; After: Sir David Wilkie; After: Richard Wilson
School/style
Production date: 1840
Production place: Published in: Great Yarmouth
Materials
Technique: lithograph; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 385 millimetres (approx. sheet size); Width: 270 millimetres (approx. sheet size)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: One hundred copies printed. Three other copies in the British Library (General Reference Collection 789.g.12. General Reference Collection L.R.402.h.12.; General Reference Collection G.3596.(1.) ) BL cat lists: "Text by Dawson and Mary Turner accompanying drawings by their daughters". Initials on plates are H.S.T. and M.A.T, suggesting they were probably completed by Hannah Sarah Turner (1808 - ?) married in 1839 to Thomas Brightwen; and Mary Anne Turner (1803-1874). Binding has "Drawings from Prints" on cover and "Outlines in Lithography" on spine.
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: Napoléon I, Emperor of the French (Napoleon); Portrait of: David Teniers the Younger
Associated places: Associated with: Hellesdon; Associated with: Norwich; Associated with: Hunstanton
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1902
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1902,0514.1252.1-51

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