Original 1878 etching and aquatint after the painting by J. M. W. Turner. A view of the Tiber with the triumphal bridge, the palace of the Caesars beyond, boats in the foreground and the landing of Agrippina with the ashes of Germanicus. Signed in the copper A. Brunet-Debaines sc.
Original 1878 etching and aquatint after the painting by J. M. W. Turner. A view of the Tiber with the triumphal bridge, the palace of the Caesars beyond, boats in the foreground and the landing of Agrippina with the ashes of Germanicus. Signed in the copper A. Brunet-Debaines sc.
It was published in The Portfolio. An Artistic Periodical, the magazine edited by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and published in London by Seeley & Co., which spread reproductive etching in Victorian England. Turner's original, exhibited in 1839, is in the Tate.
Medium: Etching and aquatint.
Artist / after: After Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851).
Engraver: Alfred Louis Brunet-Debaines (1845-1939).
Date: 1878.
Source: The Portfolio, Seeley & Co., London.
Dimensions: Plate mark 7.9 x 9.6 in (20 x 24.5 cm).
Condition: Toned paper, with faint damp staining in the upper right margin; image complete.