Water Cress Gatherers, Rails Head Ferry Bridge, Twickenham (Liber Studiorum, part XIII, plate 62) January 1, 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. Professional engravers usually developed the tone under Turner's direction, and Lupton here added mezzotint to describe a a rural scene where awo

Water Cress Gatherers, Rails Head Ferry Bridge, Twickenham (Liber Studiorum, part XIII, plate 62) January 1, 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. Professional engravers usually developed the tone under Turner's direction, and Lupton here added mezzotint to describe a a rural scene where awoman picks cress in a stream near two children. At the end of bridge, above, figures with baskets are bathed in a burst of bright sunlight, as a horse-drawn gig moves away down a road through the rain. The changeable weather and shifting light, characterisitic of an English summer, are Turner's ture subject, and the letter "P" in the plate indicates his category of Pastoral Water Cress Gatherers, Rails Head Ferry Bridge, Twickenham (Liber Studiorum, part XIII, plate 62). Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London). January 1, 1819. Etching and mezzotint; second state of three. Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London). Thomas Goff Lupton (British, London 1791–1873 London). Prints

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