The Frontispiece to Liber Studiorum
Joseph Mallord William Turner · published May 23, 1812 · Mezzotint and etching in dark brown on cream laid paper, lined at edges with ivory wove paper
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About this picture
The Frontispiece to Liber Studiorum is a public-domain illustration by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated published May 23, 1812. Mezzotint and etching in dark brown on cream laid paper, lined at edges with ivory wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Frontispiece to Liber Studiorum” (published May 23, 1812) treats light as the subject. In Turner’s later pictures, ships, storms, and sunrises dissolve, and he showed those canvases as finished works.
About the artist
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) was an English landscape painter. His late pictures dissolve ships, storms, and sunrises into light, and he exhibited them as finished works, not sketches.
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