Dumblain Abbey, Scotland (Liber Studiorum, part XI, plate 56)
Medium
Etching and mezzotint; first state of four (Finberg)
Dimensions
plate: 7 7/16 x 10 9/16 in. (18.9 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
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
Accession Number
28.97.56
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the grand tradition of British Romanticism, *Dumblain Abbey,* (Liber Studiorum, part, plate 56) the evocative ruins of a Scottish abbey through the visionary lens of J.M.W. Turner, etching by Turner and mezzotint engraving by Thomas Goff Lupton Published on January 1, 1816, this print belongs to Turner's ambitious *Liber Studiorum* (1807–1819), a collection of 71 plates that showcased his mastery of landscape categories—from pastoral idylls to architectural subjects—inspired by the 17th-century master Claude Lorrain. Here, the crumbling abbey stands as a poignant symbol of time's passage, f...
About the Artist
Thomas Goff Lupton|Joseph Mallord William Turner|Joseph Mallord William Turner (British|British|British) · 1791 |1746 |1564 –1873 |1831 |1616
British, London 1791–1873 London|British, Plymouth 1746–1831 London|British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon