The Mildmay Sea-Piece (Liber Studiorum, part XIII, plate 40)

Joseph Mallord William Turner

1812 · Etching only; before 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. Here we see his preliminary work on a plate that William Annis and J. C. Easling later completed using mezzotint.

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Date

1812

Medium

Etching only; before first state of four

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Mary W. Tweed, 1925