Original steel engraving cut by S. Bradshaw after the picture by J. M. W. Turner in the National Gallery. The night-time parting of Hero and Leander on the shore of the Hellespont, among imaginary architecture and the reflection of the moon on the sea.
Original steel engraving cut by S. Bradshaw after the picture by J. M. W. Turner in the National Gallery. The night-time parting of Hero and Leander on the shore of the Hellespont, among imaginary architecture and the reflection of the moon on the sea.
From The Turner Gallery, the great corpus of engravings after Turner's paintings that James S. Virtue published in London from 1859, with the commentaries of Ralph Nicholson Wornum.
Medium: Steel engraving.
Artist / after: J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851).
Engraver: Samuel Bradshaw.
Date: 1862.
Source: The Turner Gallery, published in London by James S. Virtue; from the picture in the National Gallery.
Dimensions: Image 6.5 x 10.5 in (16.5 x 26.6 cm).
Condition: Good condition; a diagonal crease in the upper right corner of the paper, outside the image.