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Creator:
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Engraved by Robert Dunkarton, 1744–1811
after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Title:
The Hindoo Worshipper
Additional Title(s):

Hindoo Devotions

The Temple of Minerva Medica
Part Of:

Collective Title: Liber Studiorum

Date:
1811
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/8 × 10 3/8 inches (18.1 × 26.4 cm), Mount: 11 1/8 × 14 1/2 inches (28.3 × 36.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed on mount in graphite, lower left: "23"; lower right: "Third State"; inscribed on verso of mount in graphite, lower left: "Turner-Dunkarton. Jan 1 1811"; lower center: "Known as | 'The Hindu Worshipper - Hindu Devotions' (really Italian. The shrine is Virgin & Child)"; lower right: "(J.W. Jan 1940)"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.14015
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | temple | trees
Access:
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38801
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According to Turner, all landscapes belong to one of six fundamental categories: Architectural, Historical, Marine, Mountainous, Pastoral, and Elevated Pastoral. These prints are part of a systematic publication, the Liber Studiorum (“Book of Studies”), containing examples from each of these categories. This work provides further testimony to the enduring influence of Claude Lorrain. Claude made sepia ink and wash drawings to record all his authentic compositions and brought them together to form his celebrated Liber Veritatis (“Book of Truth”). These drawings came to be seen as the epitome of the art of landscape and were later reproduced as fine mezzotints. They inspired Turner to make his own, even more ambitious equivalents. Though imitating the format and sepia coloring of Claude’s drawings, Turner’s plates were intended not as a record of his paintings but to illustrate his own original theory of landscape art. Although never completely finished, the Liber Studiorum is among the artist’s most personal and pioneering contributions to the practice of printmaking.

Gallery label for J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality (Yale Center for British Art, March - 29, 2025 - July 27, 2025)

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