Apuleia in Search of Apuleius (unpublished plate, Liber Studiorum)
Medium
Etching and mezzotint; engraver's proof b (Finberg)
Dimensions
plate: 7 1/4 x 10 9/16 in. (18.4 x 26.8 cm) sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (21 x 29.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.95
Tags
About the Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner|William Say · 1775–1851
Joseph Mallord William Turner, born on 23 April 1775 in London's Covent Garden to barber William Turner and Mary Marshall, emerged as a child prodigy amid personal hardships. His mother suffered mental illness and died in Bethlem Hospital in 1804, while his father supported his early sketches by displaying them in his shop. Around age 10, Turner stayed with his uncle Joseph Mallord William Marshal...