- Title:
- Portsmouth, Hampshire
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Cooke's Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England
- Date:
- 1825
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof touched on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, with cream chine collé
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 3/4 × 17 1/4 inches (29.8 × 43.8 cm), Plate: 9 × 12 inches (22.9 × 30.5 cm), Chine collé: 8 7/8 × 11 3/4 inches (22.5 × 29.8 cm), Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (15.9 × 23.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, starting lower left and moving along edge of sheet: "[...] in the sky rather too dark | [...] | a little more engraving [...] lifted [...] | [...] give together [...] striving | The buoy was lightened and obviously [...] that it looks like from grating with [...] [...] is the [...] far from [...] [...] or known little [...] | Black ocean [...] dark to make [...] sails the [...] vertical [...] [...] | [...] [...] [...] shorter on the waves."; inscribed on verso in black ink, center: "Edinburgh | Drummond Street | Engraver | WM Miller | 102; lower center: "WM Miller Drummond Street | Engraver | Edinburgh."; in graphite, lower right: T 3803"
Collector's mark: W. G. Rawlinson (Lugt 2624); post mark on verso in red ink [...]N | W 21 E 1826; postmark in black ink: "JA F 19 1826"; stamped mark in red ink: crown; stamped mark in black ink: 1/2 (in rectangle); round wax seal
Lettered below image: "Drawn by J.M.W. Turner R.A. | Etched by William Miller 1825 | Portsmouth Hampshire."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6679
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bay (body of water) | cathedral | cityscape | harbor | marine art | tower (single built work)
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Hampshire | Portsmouth | Portsmouth Cathedral | Portsmouth Harbor | Square Tower | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:16003
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Print made by William Miller, 1796–1882, British, Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1825
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