Holy Island Cathedral (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 11)
Joseph Mallord William Turner|Charles Turner
February 20, 1808 · Etching and mezzotint; first state of four · Drawings and Prints
Turner distilled his ideas about landscape In "Liber Studiorum" (Latin for Book of Studies), a series of seventy prints plus a frontispiece published between 1807 and 1819. To establish the compositions, he made brown watercolor drawings, then etched outlines onto copper plates. Professional engravers usually developed the tone under Turner's direction, and Charles Turner here added mezzotint to describe the round-arched Norman (Romanesqe) arcades of Lindisfarne priory in Northumberland, with a small figure near a distant pillar establishing the scale. The letter "A" in the upper margin indicates Turner's category of Architectural landscape.
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner|Charles Turner
- Date
- February 20, 1808
- Medium
- Etching and mezzotint; first state of four
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
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