Watercolour on paper
Liber Studiorum: Designs for Unpublished Plates: nos.72-91
Liber Studiorum: Designs for Unpublished Plates: nos.72-91
Liber Studiorum c.1806-24
Liber Studiorum c.1806-24
Isle of Wight
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Vaughan Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Moonlight at Sea Needles
Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan 1900
adults
astronomy
boat, fishing
England
England, South East
England, Southern
figure
Isle of Wight
moon
Needles
night
people
places
rocky
sea
seascapes and coasts
society
times of the day
transport: water
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
<p>Between 1806 and 1819 Turner was working on a set of images for a publication known as the Liber Studiorum (Book of Studies). The series, based on Claude Lorrain’s famous Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth), consisted of seventy-one prints in brown ink, after watercolours by Turner. Shown here are three of the watercolours, and one of the prints from the project.</p><p>Turner’s intention was to promote landscape art in its various manifestations and he devoted an entire category to ‘Marine Landscape’. Some of the seascapes were entirely new designs; others were based on existing compositions.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2005</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
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/
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2005-03-23
Turner and the Sea
Collection based display
21 November 2013 – 1 September 2014
2014-09-01
21 November 2013 – 21 April 2014
2014-04-21
2013-11-21
National Maritime Museum (London, UK)
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
4 June 2014 – 1 September 2014
2014-09-01
2014-06-04
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, USA)
http://www.pem.org
2013-11-21
Turner and Marine Painting: Imagining the Sea, 1796 - 1899
Loan-out
15 April 2021 – 5 September 2021
2021-09-05
15 April 2021 – 5 September 2021
2021-09-05
2021-04-15
Turner’s House (Twickenham, UK)
2021-04-15
Turner’s English Coasts
Loan-out
Moonlight at Sea (The Needles)
support: 209 × 276 mm
Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan 1900
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<span class="text4">Between 1806 and 1819 Turner was working</span><span class="text7"> </span><span class="text0">on a set of images for a      publication known</span><span class="text7"> as the </span><span class="text10">Liber Studiorum</span><span class="text7"> (Book of Studies). The      series, based on Claude Lorrain’s famous </span><span class="text10">Liber      Veritatis</span><span class="text7"> (Book of Truth), consisted of      seventy-one prints in brown ink, after watercolours by Turner. Shown here      are three of the watercolours, and one of the prints from the project. </span>
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<span class="text6">Turner’s intention was to promote landscape</span><span class="text7"> art in its various manifestations and he devoted an entire      category to </span><span class="text4">‘Marine Landscape’. Some      of the seascapes</span><span class="text7"> were entirely new designs;      others were based on existing compositions. </span>
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adults astronomy boat, fishing England England, South East England, Southern figure Isle of Wight moon Needles night people places rocky sea seascapes and coasts society times of the day transport: water UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features
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