Artwork Details
Series Title
Artist
Engraver
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
4-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. (image) 13 x 8-1/2 in. (sheet) 9-7/8 x 5-7/8 in. (plate)
Mark Description
Inscribed in pencil, by Turner, across bottom: all the sky good work excepting X / All the left side. More else work and rather lighter Inscribed in pencil, on image by the artist with an "x" at the upper right
Accession Number
Credit Line
Bequest of Kurt F. Pantzer
Copyright
Collection
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color Palette
Provenance
J.E. Taylor Collection
Gallery Labels
Ever the Scottish patriot, Sir Walter Scott distinctly preferred that Scottish engravers be employed to work with Turner on the illustrations to his compiled works. Edinburgh native, William Miller, engraved 30 of the 39 plates in Scott’s Prose Works.
By his written instructions on this proof, Turner instructed Miller to lighten those areas of the slope that he indicated with white watercolor to suggest the rays of the sun setting behind the ruins of the Cistercian abbey.
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