The Fifth Plague of Egypt, part III, plate 16, from Liber Studiorum
Artist/Maker
Joseph Mallord William Turner
(British, 1775–1851)
Engraver
Charles Turner
(British, 1774–1857)
Date1808
MediumEtching and mezzotint
DimensionsImage: 7 1/16 × 10 1/4 in. (17.9 × 26 cm)
Plate: 8 3/16 × 11 1/2 in. (20.8 × 29.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 11/16 × 19 15/16 in. (34.8 × 50.6 cm)
Plate: 8 3/16 × 11 1/2 in. (20.8 × 29.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 11/16 × 19 15/16 in. (34.8 × 50.6 cm)
Credit LineA. Augustus Healy Fund
PortfolioLiber Studiorum
Object number1943.34
Status
Not on viewJ. M. W. Turner's Liber Studiorum (1807-19) is modeled on 17th century artist Claude Lorrain's Liber Veritatis (1635-82), a visual record Claude drew of his paintings before they left his studio. Claude's famous Liber Veritatis was engraved in mezzotint in the 1770s, and it was these prints that inspired Turner to plan his ambitious Liber Studiorum. Although only 71 of Turner's prints were completed, more than 100 were planned to illustrate six landscape categories: Historical, Mountainous, Marine, Architectural, Pastoral, and Epic or Elevated Pastoral. Taken as a whole, Turner's Liber Studiorum was both an assertion of landscape as a serious art form and a profoundly influential visual treatise for generations of artists.
Exhibition History
The Romantic Project in Europe: 1790-1850
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 17, 1998 - May 31, 1998 )
Out of Albion: British Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2008 - December 23, 2008 )
Collections
- European
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