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The Leader Sea Piece

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Charles Turner, and others

The Leader Sea Piece

1808

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The Leader Sea Piece

1808

Physical Qualities Mezzotint and etching with scraping, Sheet: 275 × 416 mm. (10 13/16 × 16 3/8 in.) Plate: 209 × 290 mm. (8 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.) Image: 177 × 258 mm. (6 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Antioch Subscription Fund, by exchange with the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Object Number 1943.5.20
Published in Part IV.
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: 'M'; LL: 'Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner Esqr. R.A.P.P.'; LWRC: 'Original Sketch of a Picture for W. Leader Esqr./London Published March 29, 1809. by C Turner No. 50 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square'; LR: 'Engraved by Chas. 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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