Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British, Apuleia in Search of Apuleius, between 1813 and 1823
- Title:
- Apuleia in Search of Apuleius
- Part Of:
- Date:
- between 1813 and 1823
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/8 × 15 3/4 inches (28.3 × 40 cm), Plate: 8 1/4 × 11 1/2 inches (21 × 29.2 cm), Image: 7 3/8 × 10 5/8 inches (18.7 × 27 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "72"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "Turner - W.Day"; lower center: "Unpublished Liber Studiorum | Appulia in search of Appulus"; lower right: "(sometimes called the Premium Landscape)"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.13973
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arch | bridge | city | hill | landscape | literary theme | man | Metamorphoses | metamorphoses of male persons into trees | mountain | pillar | religious and mythological subject | river | rock | sheep | shepherdess | sitting | the Apulian shepherd changed into an oleaster: the Apulian shepherd changed into an oleaster as punishment for mocking dancing nymphs (Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV 521) | tree | woman | woods
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38738
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