Accession number
PML 146533.3
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, etcher.
Published
[England : s.n., 1859?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title and date from ms. caption.
Proof before letters, printed in sepia ink.
Etching by Ruskin after J.M.W. Turner's "Dawn after the wreck"; the print finished in mezzotint by Thomas Lupton and later published as plate 86 in v. 5 of John Ruskin's Modern painters (London : George Allen, 1888).
Forms part of a bound album of proof impressions of etchings and engravings by or after John Ruskin and J.M.W. Turner (see PML 146533).
See PML 146533.4 for a copy of this print in its finished state in the same album.
Proof before letters, printed in sepia ink.
Etching by Ruskin after J.M.W. Turner's "Dawn after the wreck"; the print finished in mezzotint by Thomas Lupton and later published as plate 86 in v. 5 of John Ruskin's Modern painters (London : George Allen, 1888).
Forms part of a bound album of proof impressions of etchings and engravings by or after John Ruskin and J.M.W. Turner (see PML 146533).
See PML 146533.4 for a copy of this print in its finished state in the same album.
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark: 208 x 290 mm; sheet: 425 x 273 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Written in pencil at lower right: Turner. Dawn after the wreck. J. Ruskin. 1859.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a dog howling on an empty shore.
Classification
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