Colchester

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Maker

(artist)
1775-1851
(engraver)
1794-1878
(publisher)
1785-1848
(publisher) (printer)

Title

Colchester

Date of Production

6.1827

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 25 cm
Width: 29.7 cm

Object Number

G.2007.XX.2

Mode of Acquisition

Grosvenor Prints, purchase, 19 September 2007

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

  • Colchester

Label Text

Charles Heath’s twenty-four part Picturesque Views in England and Wales was the most ambitious engraving project with which Turner became involved in the 1820s and 1830s. Ninety-six of his watercolours were translated into prints by a team of engravers under his close supervision, their proofs often corrected and annotated by him.

On one proof of Colchester he requests the printmaker to ‘burnish the sky round the sun etc’. Turner’s frequent interventions ensured that only the highest quality engravings were made after his work.

Notes

Print of original drawing in the collection - see D.1974.STC.11

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : centre lower margin & recto : : Colchester, / Essex. / London, Published June 1827, for the Proprietor, by Robert Jennings, Poultry //

Inscription: inscription : printed : left lower margin & recto : : Drawn by J.M.W. Turner R.A. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : right lower margin & recto : : Engraved by Rob.t Wallis. / Printed by McQueen. //

Inscription: inscription : pencil : right margin & recto : later inscription : vue de / ma fenetre [sic] //

Provenance

Purchased from Grosvenor Prints, 19 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JN.

Exhibition History

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/2008-25/01/2009
Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England, 16/07/2008-12/10/2008

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