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- Title:
- The Temptation on the Mountain
- Additional Title(s):
- Title-page Vignette to 'Paradise Regained', Book III
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1835
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and engraving, with graphite and scraping out; touched engraver's proof (b) on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 17 1/4 × 11 5/8 inches (43.8 × 29.5 cm), Plate: 8 3/4 × 6 inches (22.2 × 15.2 cm), Image: 4 × 3 1/4 inches (10.2 × 8.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "R 601 (b)"; center left: "1. 2. | Cities of the Plains | City on the Rock | City not wall'd"; center right: "Close | another city wall"; lower center: "Rock | Very close work | Very smooth nearer [...] or form | but higher | Domes and towers of Nineveh, and wall'd round | N. B. Ciy most made out - nothing like a Spire."; lower left: "Touched proof | with Turner's writing | only"; lower right: "Temptation on the Mount - Proof touched and written on by Turner"
Turner sale mark: J.M.W. Turner (Lugt 1498); collector's mark: W. G. Rawlinson (Lugt 2624)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.7928
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:16679
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