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Inverary Pier. Loch Fyne. Morning

Maker

(artist)
1775-1851

(printmaker)
1775-1851

Title

Date of Production

1811

Medium

printed on chine collé

Dimensions

Height: 17.9 cm
Width: 26.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6989

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This tranquil scene is from Turner’s Liber Studiorum, a series of prints organised in various categories to demonstrate different types of landscape art. The prints were made using a combination of etching for line and mezzotint for tone. Turner usually worked collaboratively with professional engravers, but in this instance completed all of the engraving himself. Turner returned to the subject of Inverary Pier later in life, when he transformed the scene depicted here into a luminous unfinished oil painting.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Purpose and Process: British and French Printmaking 1600 - 1900, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/2014-20/06/2014

Literature

Turner's 'Drawing Book' The liber Studiorum
Fig. p. no. 35, p. 94

The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum with a new catalogue raisonné
Fig. p. no. 35

Inscriptions

Inscription: J. M. W. TURNER / Inverary Pier, Loch Fyne / Liber Variorum, Imitated from the Originals by L. Francia, 1810, T. Paiser. //

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