| The Shipwreck, 1807, mezzotint by Charles Turner, 60 x 82 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Charles
Turner approached his namesake and onetime fellow student at the Royal Academy School with a
proposal to engrave The Shipwreck, this lead to Charles being selected by Turner to engrave the mezzotints for the Liber Studiorum. Turner was paid 25 guineas for the loan of the canvas and given trade price of £1 6s for
any impressions he wanted to colour and resell. |
The Shipwreck, 1805, oil on canvas, 171.5 x 241.5 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
First exhibited in Turner's newly open gallery at Harley Street, subsequently moved to nearby Queen Anne Street, in 1820, where many
of his pictures were stored in increasingly deplorable conditions until the end of his life. Within the vortex-like composition of
this picture Turner used, as was his frequent practice, the dramatic effect of strong diagonals. The painting was brought for £315 by
Sir John Leicester. |
