print;
transparency
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.7666
- Description
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Six small scenes in two vertical rows, two octagonal, two roundel and two oval format; clockwise from top left: two men skating on a lake at night; a man on a ladder lighting a lamp at the edge of a bridge leading towards a half-timbered house; a ship on fire with a small sailing boat nearby; two men on a path at the edge of a village; two men on a bridge over a steep waterfall; a man at the edge of a stone bridge over a river; with hand-colouring on recto and verso as a transparency. 1799
Hand-coloured aquatint and etching
- Production date
- 1799
- Dimensions
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Height: 402 millimetres
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Width: 300 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Whitman notes that Turner engraved many prints for Edward Orme's transparencies, and that this is among the prints mentioned by the printmaker in his diary at the time of engraving it.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.7666