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- Title:
- Blenheim, Oxfordshire
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1833
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and engraving, with graphite and scraping out; touched engraver's proof (a) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/4 × 17 1/2 inches (31.1 × 44.5 cm), Plate: 9 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (24.1 × 31.1 cm), Image: 6 × 9 1/2 inches (15.2 × 24.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "R.270 (a)"; lower left: "Blenheim | 7 | 14 | (1)"; lower center: "The sky is too heavy. If you burnish it lighter do it in rays and extend No. 1 fainter and | fainter down to the water, the bridge being too dark | The Ground by the road fill in with dots in the dark parts and front of the Grass. Some / / / | Ask Mr. MacQueen to send two - one full, the other lighter next time for the Impressions seem dark | I shall not mark the Drawing Again"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "3 | P / ix/ "
Collector's mark: W. G. Rawlinson (Lugt 2624)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.7042
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | bridge | gate | landscape | palace | park | river | sporting art
- Associated Places:
- Blenheim Palace | Blenheim Park | England | Glyme | Oxfordshire | The Grand Bridge | United Kingdom | Woodstock | Woodstock Gate
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17211
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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. 24, no. 77, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]