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Print made by Robert Wallis, 1794–1878, British, Tours - Looking Backwards, 1833
- Title:
- Tours - Looking Backwards
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1833
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 5/8 inches (28.6 × 42.2 cm), Plate: 5 7/8 × 9 inches (14.9 × 22.9 cm), Chine collé: 5 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (14.6 × 22.2 cm), Image: 3 5/8 × 5 1/2 inches (9.2 × 14 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "R.442"; lower center: "First State"; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: "Ruins of France. Loire"; lower right: "Tours Looking Backwards 1st state"
Lettered, lower left: "Drawn by J.M.W. Turner, R.A."; lettered, lower right: "Engrved by R. Wallis. | Printed by McQueen."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.13599
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bridge | cathedral | cityscape | genre | river
- Associated Places:
- Centre | Europe | France | Indre-et-Loire | Loire | Pont Wilson | Tours | Tours Cathedral
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:39458
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Eric M. Lee, Translations : Turner and printmaking, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, pp. 40-41, no. 168, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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