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Cortes and Pizarro (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1775-1851

(printmaker)
1795-1870

Title

Cortes and Pizarro (recto)

Date of Production

1834

Medium

printed in black
etching and engraving

Dimensions

Height: 15.4 cm
Width: 10 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7474.30

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

'Appendix B: Turner's Collected Literary Vignettes' in Turner's Vignettes
no. 55

The Engraved Work of J. M. W. Turner
no. 402

Inscriptions

Inscription: Turner, R. A. //

Inscription: Goodall. //

Inscription: ON the two last leaves, and written in another hand, are some stanza / in the romance or ballad measure of the Spaniards. The subject is an / adventure soon related. / THY lonely watch-tower, Larenille, / Had lost the western sun; / And loud and long from hill to hill / Echoed the evening-gun //

Inscription: T.O. //

Inscription: Mid gems and gold unenvied and unblest; / While to the starry sphere thy name shall rise, / (Not there unsung they generous enterprise!) / Thine in all hearts to dwell - by Fame enshrined, / With those, the Few, that live but for Mankind; / Thine evermore, transcendent happiness! / World beyond world to visit and to bless." / [..] MONTESQUIEU. //

Inscription: Turner, R. A. //

Inscription: Goodall. //

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