Morpeth North (Liber Studiorum, part IV, plate 21) March 29, 1809 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 Charles Turner here added mezzotint to describe a town in Northumberland. At right, scaffolding supports a man wh
Morpeth North (Liber Studiorum, part IV, plate 21) March 29, 1809 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 Charles Turner here added mezzotint to describe a town in Northumberland. At right, scaffolding supports a man whitewashing a wall near sidewalk vendors. At left, a road crosses a stone bridge, with a ruined tower standing above lower buildings. The letter "A" in the upper margin indicates Turner's category of Architectural Morpeth North (Liber Studiorum, part IV, plate 21) 382924
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