Interior of a Church, part XIV, plate 70 from "Liber Studiorum"
Artist and publisher Joseph Mallord William Turner British
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Turner distilled his ideas about landscape In "Liber Studiorum" (Latin for Book of Studies), a series of seventy prints plus a frontispiece published between 1807 and 1819. To establish the compositions, he made brown watercolor drawings, then etched outlines onto copper plates. In a few instances he also developed the tone, here using mezzotint to develop interior contrasts of light and shade within a gothic church interior with a preacher standing in a pulpit and worshippers in the pews. Turner added the subject late to the series, mentioning it first in a note made around 1815, and based the composition on a painting he made in the late 1790s (now at Tate Britain). The letter "A" in the upper margin indicates Turner's category of Architectural landscape.
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