Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British

Engraved by Thomas Goff Lupton, 1791–1873, British

after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Title:
Ben Arthur, Scotland
Date:
1819
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink; first published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 × 16 1/4 inches (27.9 × 41.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "69. I"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "69. I."; lower center: "Cotswold Gallery 1924, ex. G.E.Blood"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.8189
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29)

Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05)

Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)

Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19)

Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20)

Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Unto this last : two hundred years of John Ruskin, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2019, p. 187, fig. 93, NJ18.R895 .B37 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)

Eric M. Lee, Translations : Turner and printmaking, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, p. 16, no. 30, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA)

Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 19, no. 153, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:30614