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- Title:
- Margate, Kent
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1831
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and engraving, with graphite and scraping out; touched engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 5/8 × 16 1/2 inches (29.5 × 41.9 cm), Plate: 10 × 12 inches (25.4 × 30.5 cm), Image: 6 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (16.2 × 24.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "R. 263. (E.P. touched) (2)"; upper center: 'Touched proof by Turner"; center: "There wants gradation | Here & don't put any cross lines. Pray take care of the sky | for it is very well"; lower left: "Should have both | drawn lines - thus"; lower left: "Corn" and "not Grav'd"; lower center: "This only part well [...] burnishing lighter and more. but [...] added to work | better . | It all should be lighter [...] | The Print looks better than the India because the Lights are much clearer"
Lettered, lower right: "R. Wallis, 1831"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.7021
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17190
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Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Eric M. Lee, Translations : Turner and printmaking, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, p. 23, no. 73, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]