Graphite and watercolour on paper
Watercolours Related to Samuel Rogers’s Poems
Vignette watercolours  c.1826-1843
Watercolours Related to Samuel Rogers’s Poems
Vignette watercolours  c.1826-1843
Tate Britain
Tate Collection
Works with images
Works on display
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Rogers’s Poems 1835 Watercolours
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Tornaro Rogerss Poems
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
agriculture and fishing
animals: mammals
boat, sailing
cliff
figure
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess
island
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
people
rocky
Rogers, Samuel, ‘Poems’
sea
seascapes and coasts
sheep
society
sunset
times of the day
transport: water
work and occupations
<p>Turner’s watercolour for Tornaro was sensitively translated into black lines and engraved on steel by Robert Wallis. The engraving accompanied the following lines:</p><p>‘The shepherd on Tornaro’s misty brow,</p><p>And the swart seamen, sailing far below,</p><p>Not undelighted watch the morning ray</p><p>Purpling the orient - till it breaks away,</p><p>And burns and blazes into glorious day!’</p><p>John Ruskin described the prints in Rogers’s Poems as ‘the loveliest engravings ever produced by the pure line’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
18 February 2002 – 26 May 2002
2002-05-26
18 February 2002 – 26 May 2002
2002-05-26
2002-02-18
Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, USA)
http://www.artbma.org
4 October 2002 – 12 January 2003
2003-01-12
2002-10-04
Fundación Juan March (Madrid, Spain)
http://www.march.es
14 February 2003 – 30 April 2003
2003-04-30
2003-02-14
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, Portugal)
http://www.museu.gulbenkian.pt/
2002-02-18
Turner - Baltimore
Tate partnerships & programmes
18 February 2002 – 26 October 2002
2002-10-26
18 February 2002 – 26 May 2002
2002-05-26
2002-02-18
Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, USA)
http://www.artbma.org
4 September 2002 – 19 January 2003
2003-01-19
2002-09-04
Fundación Juan March (Madrid, Spain)
http://www.march.es
20 February 2003 – 18 May 2003
2003-05-18
2003-02-20
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal)
2002-02-18
Turner and the Sea
Tate partnerships & programmes
23 March 2005 – 16 October 2005
2005-10-16
23 March 2005 – 16 October 2005
2005-10-16
2005-03-23
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-03-23
Turner and the Sea
Collection based display
10 June 2024 – 22 June 2025
2025-06-22
10 June 2024 – 22 June 2025
2025-06-22
2024-06-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2024-06-10
Turner Vignettes
Collection based display
Tornaro, for Rogers’s ‘Poems’
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<span class="text7">Turner’s <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> for </span><span class="text16">Tornaro</span><span class="text7"> was sensitively translated into      black lines and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraved</span></a> on <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/metal" title="Glossary definition for 'Metal'"><span>steel</span></a> by Robert Wallis. The </span><span class="text15">engraving accompanied the following lines: </span>
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<span class="text7">
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<span class="text7">‘The shepherd on Tornaro’s misty brow, </span>
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<div class="pbodytext">
<span class="text7">And the swart seamen, sailing far below, </span>
</div>
<div class="pbodytext">
<span class="text7">Not undelighted watch the morning ray </span>
</div>
<div class="pbodytext">
<span class="text7">Purpling the orient - till it breaks away, </span>
</div>
<div class="pbodytext">
<span class="text7">And burns and blazes into glorious day!’
<br/> </span>
</div>
<div class="para9">
<span class="text7">
<br/> </span>
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<span class="text7">John Ruskin described the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> in </span><span class="text17">Rogers’s Poems</span><span class="text15"> as ‘the      loveliest engravings</span><span class="text7"> ever produced by the      pure line’. </span>
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adults agriculture and fishing animals: mammals boat, sailing cliff figure herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess island literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) people rocky Rogers, Samuel, ‘Poems’ sea seascapes and coasts sheep society sunset times of the day transport: water work and occupations
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