print; frontispiece

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Object Type: print; frontispiece
Museum number: 1940,0316.3
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); '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; early state, with names of 16 artists, India proof. 1819 Etching with crayon-manner, printed on India paper
Producer name: After: Joseph Mallord William Turner; Print made by: Frederick Christian Lewis
School/style
Production date: 1819
Materials
Technique: etching; crayon-manner
Dimensions: Height: 250 millimetres; Width: 187 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: After Turner's drawing presented to the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1883. Paste with a piece of paper from later catalogue (not Rawlinson) describing the print.
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: 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
Acquisition date: 1940
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1940,0316.3

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