Charles Turner - 1832 Mezzotint After J.M.W. Turner, A Shipwreck

Description

Charles Turner - Original 1832 Mezzotint. Published 1837 by Ackerman, London Unsigned. Age toning and some closed tears as shown, otherwise good condition.

From Charles Turner's Wikipedia page: While a student at the Royal Academy, he had become a friend of JMW Turner (to who he was not related), and in 1806 he made a mezzotint of his Shipwreck. This ambitious plate – 82 cm across.– was the first individual print to be made after one of the artist's paintings. In that year he also began work on the Liber Studiorum, working in mezzotint over outlines etched by JMW Turner. After the issue of the first part he also took over as publisher. The two men worked closely on the plates, JMW Turner adding new ideas to the proofs as the work progressed. Charles Turner continued to work on the project until 1809, when a quarrel over money led to the end of the arrangement: according to his own account, the two men did not speak for the next 19 years. He did however engrave and publish a plate after JMW Turner's Vesuvius in Eruption in 1815, and engraved five plates for the artist's Rivers of England from 1823 onwards. The relationship seems eventually to have been mended, and Charles Turner was one of the executors of JMW Turner's will

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Size

53 x 76.6cm (20.9" x 30.2")
Framed Size: 56 x 79cm (22" x 31.1")

Collection Information

From the Christopher Lennox-Boyd collection. We recently acquired a number of fine Mezzotints previously owned by Chris Lennox-Boyd, owner of the finest collection of British Mezzotints in private hands. You can read more about him here.

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