Joseph Mallord William Turner and James C. Easling
Frontispiece
1811
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Mezzotint and etching with scraping printed in brown, Sheet: 278 × 415 mm. (10 15/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
Plate: 212 × 297 mm. (8 3/8 × 11 11/16 in.)
Image: 189 × 266 mm. (7 7/16 × 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Antioch Subscription Fund, by exchange with the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Object Number
1943.5.1
Though cataloged first, plate 1 was originally issued with Part X.
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Finberg, Alexander J.; JMW Turner's Liber Studiorum with a catalogue raisonne, Alan Wosley Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1988. Rawlinson, W. G.; Turner's Liber Studiorum, a Description and a Catalogue, Second Edition, 1906. Pye, John, and ed. J. L. Roget, Notes and Memoranda Respecting the Liber Studiorum of JMW Turner, R.A., London, 1879.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: UC: 'The FRONTISPIECE to / LIBER STUDIORUM'; ULQ: [in banner]'Engraved by/Wm. Annis/ G. Clint/ I. C. Easling/ R. Dunkarton/ H. Daw/ T. Hodgetts/ S.W. Reynolds/ W. Say/ C. Turner/ J.M.W. Turner'; LL: 'Drawn Etched & the Centre Engraved by I. M. W. Turner Esqr. R.A.P.P.'; LWRC: 'is most respectfully presented to the Subscribers, by I. M.W. Turner.'/ Published May 23, 1812 by I.M.W. Turner, Queen Street West'; LR: 'Engraved by I. C. Easling'
