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- After Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- The Keepsake
- Medium
- Line engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 87 × 131 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1988
- Reference
- T05106
Catalogue entry
[from] The Keepsake pub.1828–37 [T04614-T04630; T05105-T05109; complete]
Five line-engravings, by various engravers and in various states, comprising five subjects out of a total of seventeen; various papers and sizes
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1988
Prov: ...; N.W. Lott and H.J. Gerrish Ltd, from whom bt by Tate Gallery (earlier provenance given in individual entries where known)
Lit: Andrew Wilton, Turner Abroad, 1982, Turner in his Time, 1987; Cecilia Powell, Turner in the South, 1987; Eric Shanes, Turner's England: 1810–38, 1990
For details of the series, see introduction to T04614-T04630. The engravers responsible for these subjects were: Edward Goodall (1795–1870), Robert Wallis (1794–1878), William R. Smith (active 1820s–50s), James Tibbits Willmore (1800–63) and William Miller (1796 –1882).
One of the engravings, T05106, is recorded as having belonged to the Revd Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832 –1916), a keen enthusiast of Turner's work and the author of Notes on the Liber Studiorum of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., 1885.
T05106 Lago Maggiore engr. W.R. Smith, pub.1829
Line-engraving 87 × 131 (3 7/16 × 5 3/16) on India paper laid on wove paper 286 × 420 (11 1/4 × 16 1/2); plate-mark 153 × 214 (6 × 8 7/16); watermark '1827 H[...]'
Inscribed in pencil in a later hand lower left ‘Ex Coll Stopford A. Brooke.’ Engraved inscriptions: ‘Drawn by J.M.W. Turner. R.A.’ below image b.l., ‘Engraved by W.R. Smith’ below image b.r.
Prov: ...; Stopford A. Brooke
Lit: Rawlinson II 1913, no.321, first published state
Published: The Keepsake, 1829, p.238. Original water-colour: Brian Pilkington, London (Wilton 1979, no.730; Powell 1987, pp.126–7). Robert Southey's ‘Stanzas, addressed to R.[sic] M.W. Turner, Esq., R.A. on his view of the Lago Maggiore from the town of Arona’ accompanied the plate, paying tribute to Turner's depiction of the scene:
Great Painter, did thy gifted eye survey
The Splendid scene; and conscious of its power
Well hath thine hand inimitable given
The glories of the lake, and land, and heaven.
Published in:
Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1986-88, London 1996
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