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Museum number: 1923,0714.92-96
Title: Object: Water Chess Gatherers, Rail's Head, Ferry Bridge, Twickenham; Object: The Alcove, Isleworth; Object: Ben Arthur, Scotland; Object: Inverary Castle and Town, Scotland; Object: Aesacus and Hesperié; Series: Liber Studiorum
Description: Folder of five prints from Joseph Mallord William Turner's 'Liber Studiorum'; third state of the 'Water Chess Gatherers, Rail's Head, Ferry Bridge, Twickenham' by Thomas Lupton; third state of 'The Alcove, Isleworth' by Henry Dawe; third state of 'Ben Arthur, Scotland' by Thomas Lupton; third state of 'Inverary Castle and Town, Scotland' by Charles Turner; fifth state of 'Aesacus and Hesperié'. 1816-1819 Mezzotint and etching
Producer name: Print made by: Joseph Mallord William Turner; Print made by: Thomas Lupton; Print made by: Henry Dawe; Print made by: Charles Turner
School/style
Production date: 1816-1819
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: mezzotint; etching
Dimensions: Height: 208 millimetres (platemark, approx.); Width: 290 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Titles taken from catalogue when not lettered on print In folder, collected in cloth box of whole series.
Bibliographic references: Finberg 1924 / The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum with a new catalogue raisonné (62-63, 69, 65-66); Rawlinson 1906 / Turner's Liber Studiorum (62-63, 69, 65-66)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Illustration to: Sir George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argylle; Representation of: Aesacus; Representation of: Hesperia; Associated with: Ovid
Associated places: Associated with: Twickenham; Topographic representation of: Isleworth; Topographic representation of: River Thames; Topographic representation of: Inveraray; Topographic representation of: Loch Fyne; Topographic representation of: Ben Arthur
Acquisition name: Donated by: Arthur Acland Allen; Donated through: Art Fund (as NACF)
Acquisition date: 1923
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1923,0714.92-96

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