By Kind Permission of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
By Kind Permission of Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
Engraved by Miller after Turner. ( The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott. Rawlinson 529. Wilton 1106.)
J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851
Placenza (Piacenza) c.1833
Watercolour, 7.6x15.2cm
Engraving:
Engraved by W. Miller, 1835
Steel engraving, 8.3x14.3cm
Engraved for Scott's 'Prose Works', 1834-6
Provenance: John Dillon, sale Christie 29/4/1869 (136), bt McLean; Murrieta, sale Christie 2/5/1892 (313), bt Vokins; Sir Donald Currie; Howard Bliss, sale 12/3/1947 (78), bt W.C.C. Quarrell, sale Sotheby 22/4/1959 (35), bt Truman; Sotheby 27/2/1960 (87), bt. Walker Gallery, London; Walter Brandt
Further Comments: Published as the frontispiece to volume 10, 1835 of the Prose Works, 'Life of Napoleon'.
Collection: Trustees of the P.A. Brandt Settlement