Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, plate from Sir Walter Scott's "The Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland"

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Edinburgh from the Calton Hill, plate from Sir Walter Scott's "The Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland"

After: Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
George Cooke (English, 1781–1834)

1820

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving on chine collé, touched proof

Dimensions Platemark: 26.0 x 33.0 cm (10 13/16 x 13 in.)
Sheet: 28.3 x 44 cm (11 1/8 x 17 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Bequest of Francis Bullard

Accession NumberM24157

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsPrints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Rawlinson 193, touched proof

DescriptionMarginal sketches and numerous annotations in graphite pencil in Turner's hand, beginning at upper left with "OOX to be burnished horizontally..." transcribed in W. G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J. M. W. Turner, R.A., col. 1 (1908), pp. lxxi-lxxii.

InscriptionsMarginal sketches and numerous annotations in graphite pencil in Turner's hand, beginning at upper left with "OOX to be burnished horizontally..." transcribed in W. G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J. M. W. Turner, R.A., col. 1 (1908), pp. lxxi-lxxii.

ProvenanceFrancis W. Bullard (1862-1913, Boston); bequest 1913