Minehead, Somersetshire - YCBA Collections Search

Download/Print selected image

Request additional photography

Large Print

Print made by William Bernard Cooke, 1778–1855, British, Minehead, Somersetshire, 1820

Request photography | Print Object

Creator:

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

Title:

Minehead, Somersetshire

Part Of:

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

Date:

1820

Materials & Techniques:

Etching; open etching touched on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 12 1/8 × 17 1/4 inches (30.8 × 43.8 cm), Plate: 9 × 12 inches (22.9 × 30.5 cm), Image: 6 1/8 × 8 3/8 inches (15.6 × 21.3 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Early state, before rivers for [...] were cleaned out | foreground darkened and shaded with brown | R.112. Etching touched."

Lettered below image: "J.M.W. Turner R.A. | Etched W.B. Cooke 1820. | Minehead Somersetshire."

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1977.14.6653

Classification:

Prints

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

castle | landscape (representation) | river | tower (single built work)

Associated Places:

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:15977

Export:

XML

IIIF Manifest:

JSON

If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.