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Liber Studiorum: Dumblain Abbey, Scotland

Date unknown

Joseph Mallord William Turner

(British, 1775–1851)
Culture
England, 19th century
Medium
etching and mezzotint
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Katherine Bullard in memory of Francis Bullard 1919.160
Catalogue raisonné
Rawlinson 56
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Not on view
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A horizontally oriented sepia etching depicts a landscape with a ruined abbey crowning a densely wooded hill. In the lower left, figures wash and spread laundry along a riverbank, their light forms set against dark earth. To the right, a river flows past large, jagged rocks toward a pale, expansive sky. The intricate stonework of the ruins and the textured foliage are cast in soft, atmospheric light.

Liber Studiorum: Dumblain Abbey, Scotland

Date unknown

Joseph Mallord William Turner

(British, 1775–1851)
England, 19th century

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