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- Title:
- High Street, Oxford
- Date:
- 1812
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof (b) on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, mounted to thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 3/8 × 24 5/8 inches (49.2 × 62.5 cm), Image: 16 × 24 inches (40.6 × 61 cm), Mount: 32 7/8 × 25 3/8 inches (83.5 × 64.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on mount in graphite, upper left: "R. 79
Lettered below image: "Published March 14 1812 by James Wyatt, | Carver and Gilder, Hight Street Oxford | as the Act | directs | Engraved by John Pye 1812" | HIGH STREET, | OXFORD, | To the Very Reverend JOHN PARSONS D.D. | DEAN OF BRISTOL, Master of Balliot College | and Vice Chancellor of | the University of Oxford. | This Plate after an original Picture by J. M. W. Turner Esqr. R.A. | and Professor of Perspective to the Royal Academy | Is dedicated with PERMISSION, | by his most obliged and very humble Servant. JAMES WYATT."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6567
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15808
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Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Eric M. Lee, Translations : Turner and printmaking, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, pp. 10-12, no. 10, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]