Water Cress Gatherers ( (Liber Studiorum, part XIII) 1819 Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner British 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 Thomas Lupton later completed in mezzotint. The rural English scene shows a woman picking cress in a stream near two children as figures with baskets re
Water Cress Gatherers ( (Liber Studiorum, part XIII) 1819 Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner British 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 Thomas Lupton later completed in mezzotint. The rural English scene shows a woman picking cress in a stream near two children as figures with baskets rest at the end of a bridge, and a horse-drawn gig move away down a road next to a Water Cress Gatherers ( (Liber Studiorum, part XIII) 383027 Artist: Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, British, London 1775?1851 London, Water Cress Gatherers ( (Liber Studiorum, part XIII), 1819, Etching only; before first state of three, plate: 8 9/16 x 11 3/8 in. ( x cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Havemeyer, 1929 ()
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