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The Fifth Plague of Egypt

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Charles Turner, and others

The Fifth Plague of Egypt

1807

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The Fifth Plague of Egypt

1807

Physical Qualities Mezzotint and etching with scraping, Sheet: 280 × 420 mm. (11 × 16 9/16 in.) Plate: 208 × 290 mm. (8 3/16 × 11 7/16 in.) Image: 180 × 260 mm. (7 1/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund, by exchange with the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Object Number 1943.5.16
Published in Part III.
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: 'H'; LL: 'Drawn & Etch'd by J.M.W. Turner Esqr. R.A.P.P.'; LWRC: 'The 5th Plague of Egypt, the Picture late in the possession of W. Beckford Esqr. 5 by 5./ London Published June 10, 1808. by C Turner No. 50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square'; LR: 'Engraved by C. Turner'

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner

1774–1850

English, 1775-1851
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Publisher

Charles Turner

1772–1856

English, 1773-1857
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Printer

Charles Turner and James Lahee

2000–2000

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