The Castle above the Meadows (Liber Studiorum, part II, plate 8), Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1808


The Castle above the Meadows (Liber Studiorum, part II, plate 8), 1808, Etching and mezzotint; first state of four, plate: 7 1/16 x 10 5/16 in. ( x cm), Prints, Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London), Engraved and published by Charles Turner (British, Woodstock, Oxfordshire 1774–1857 London), 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


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