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Print made by William Bernard Cooke, 1778–1855, British, Plymouth from Mount Batten, 1817

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Creator:

Print made by William Bernard Cooke, 1778–1855
after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Title:

Plymouth from Mount Batten

Part Of:

Collective Title: Cooke's Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England

Date:

1817

Materials & Techniques:

Etching, drypoint, and plate tone, with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 12 3/16 × 17 3/16 inches (31 × 43.7 cm), Plate: 9 1/4 × 11 15/16 inches (23.5 × 30.3 cm), Chine collé: 8 15/16 × 11 13/16 inches (22.7 × 30 cm), Image: 6 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (16.5 × 24.1 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "R.100."; upper right: "28"; lower left: "100. Early Eng. Pf. E.P. 2x"; lower center: "(Previously E.P. 1)"; lower right: "Unfinished before patches of light | on hill to L. of round Tower. | Lights in cornfield l. L. afterwards were | reduced in stregnth &c."; inscribed in on verso graphite, lower left: "AW | Soth.7 21st Nov 1922 lot 223 | Shores & Hughes Coll."

Collector's mark: A. Wallis (not in Lugt)

Lettered, lower left: "Drawn by J.M.W. Turner R.A. | Plymouth from Mount Batten."; lettered, lower right: "by W.B.Cooke 1817."

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1977.14.6624

Classification:

Prints

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

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Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15909

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