Dedham Castle, After Turner
Date1888
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Original created by
Joseph Mallord William Turner
(English painter and draftsman, 1775–1851)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 3 1/8 × 4 13/16 in. (7.9 × 12.2 cm)
sheet: 8 1/8 × 9 5/16 in. (20.6 × 23.7 cm)
sheet: 8 1/8 × 9 5/16 in. (20.6 × 23.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.234
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis is one of Sloan's earliest efforts in the medium of etching. On viewing it late in his career, he said it was "so timidly bitten that it looks like a drypoint. The exciting action of the acid evidently frightened me so that it is hard for me to believe that the lines ever saw acid. Done at the age of seventeen." The image was copied from a print of Turner's "Norham Castle on the Tweed" that hung over his family's mantelpiece.Double Elephant Editions, New York
1963, printed 2003