Near Blair Athol, Scotland (Liber Studiorum, part VI, plate 30) June 1, 1811 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. Professional engravers usually developed the tone under Turner's direction, and Say here added mezzotint to describe a Scottish fisherman wearing a kilt, casting in a shallow stream
Near Blair Athol, Scotland (Liber Studiorum, part VI, plate 30) June 1, 1811 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. Professional engravers usually developed the tone under Turner's direction, and Say here added mezzotint to describe a Scottish fisherman wearing a kilt, casting in a shallow stream bordered by boulders and trees. The "M" in the top margin indicates Turner's category of Mountainous landscape, although the peaks in this image are seen only at a Near Blair Athol, Scotland (Liber Studiorum, part VI, plate 30) 382933
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