Lauffenbourgh on the Rhine (Liber Studiorum, part VI, plate 31)
Joseph Mallord William Turner|Thomas Hodgetts|Joseph Mallord William Turner
January 1, 1811 · Etching and mezzotint; first state of six (Finberg) · 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 Hodgetts here added mezzotint to describe the Swiss city of Laufenburg. Houses and towers with steeply pitched roofs cluster tightly on the bank next to a high, stone-piered bridge that crosses the Rhine to Germany. The letter "A" in the upper margin indicates Turner's category of Architectural landscape.
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner|Thomas Hodgetts|Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Date
- January 1, 1811
- Medium
- Etching and mezzotint; first state of six (Finberg)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
