海洋

[from] The Keepsake pub.1828–37 [ T04614 - T04630 ; T05105 - T05109 ; complete]

Five line-engravings, by various engravers and in various states, comprising five subjects out of a total of seventeen; various papers and sizes

Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1988

Prov: ...; N.W. Lott and H.J. Gerrish Ltd, from whom bt by Tate Gallery (earlier provenance given in individual entries where known)

Lit: Andrew Wilton, Turner Abroad , 1982, Turner in his Time , 1987; Cecilia Powell, Turner in the South , 1987; Eric Shanes, Turner's England: 1810–38 , 1990 For details of the series, see introduction to T04614 - T04630 . The engravers responsible for these subjects were: Edward Goodall (1795–1870), Robert Wallis (1794–1878), William R. Smith (active 1820s–50s), James Tibbits Willmore (1800–63) and William Miller (1796 –1882). One of the engravings, T05106 , is recorded as having belonged to the Revd Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832 –1916), a keen enthusiast of Turner's work and the author of Notes on the Liber Studiorum of J.M.W. Turner, R.A. , 1885.

T05109 The Sea! The Sea! engr. J.T. Willmore

Line-engraving, vignette, approx. 125 × 96 (4 15/16 × 3 3/4) on India paper laid on wove paper 437 × 294 (17 3/16 × 11 9/16); plate-mark 213 × 150 (8 3/8 × 5 7/8)

Lit: Rawlinson II 1913, no.335, engraver's proof Engraver's proof of plate published in The Keepsake , 1837, p.59. Original watercolour : private collection (Wilton 1979, no.1303). The plate accompanied a short story by Lord Nugent.