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Heding and Ditching

Heding and Ditching
1812
from Liber Studiorum, part X, 23 May 1812

Medium
etching, mezzotint printed in brown ink

Measurements
18.6 × 26.1 cm (image) 21.1 × 29.2 cm (plate) 28.0 × 40.1 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1949

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Rawlinson 47 i/iv; Finberg 47 i/iv (or possibly engraver's proof C)

Edition
1st of 4 states

Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Drawn & Etched by I.M.W. Turner R.A.
printed in ink l.r.: Engraved by C. Easling
printed in ink l.c.: Hedging and Ditching / Publiſhed May 23. 1812, by I.M.W. Turner, Queen Ann Street West
stamped in ink on reverse l.r.: (black motif in two ovals) (Lugt 2758: Charles Stokes)
inscribed in ink on reverse l.r.: Mary Constance Clarke
inscribed in pencil l.l.: R.47 I (or possibly an Engraver's proof C) / No capital P in upper margin (in Harold Wright’s hand)
inscribed in pencil l.c.: (ex Charles Stokes, Mary Constance Clarke, & H.S. Theobald collections) (Brilliant proof) (in Harold Wright’s hand)
inscribed in pencil l.r.: 584Y.

Accession Number
2180B-4

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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