Dumblain Abbey, Scotland (Liber Studiorum, part XI, plate 56)
Thomas Goff Lupton|Joseph Mallord William Turner|Joseph Mallord William Turner
January 1, 1816 · Etching and mezzotint; first state of four (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 Lupton here added mezzotint to detail Dunblane Abbey, whose ruins overlook a river from a wooded bank. Below, women wash clothes and the waterway winds away at right towards a distant bridge. The composition relates to a drawing made during the artist's 1801 Scottish tour, and the letter "A" in the upper margin indicates his category of Architectural landscape.
- Artist
- Thomas Goff Lupton|Joseph Mallord William Turner|Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Date
- January 1, 1816
- Medium
- Etching and mezzotint; first state of four (Finberg)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
