The Alps at Daybreak

By Kind Permission of a Private Collection

Engraved by Goodall after Turner. ( Rogers's Poems, p.192. Rawlinson 395. Wilton 1199.) Writing of this plate, W.G. Rawlinson expressed the opinion that 'nothing in engraving finer than this small plate ever has been, or ever will be produced' ( Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, p. 244). According to Rawlinson, the chamois in the foreground of this vignette 'were a great deal of' trouble to Turner, and were entirely redrawn by Goodall' ( Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, p. lii).

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J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851
The Alps at Daybreak c.1831-2
Watercolour, 11.5x13.9cm
Engraving:
Engraved by E. Goodall, 1834
Steel engraving, 7.6x8.9cm
Engraved for Rogers's 'Poems', 1834
Collection: Tate Gallery, London