Mêr de Glace, Valley of Chamouni-Savoy (Liber Studiorum, part X, plate 50), May 23, 1812, Etching and mezzotint; fifth state of five (Finberg), plate: 7 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (18.1 x 25.7 cm), Prints, Turner distilled his ideas about landscape In 'Liber Studiorum' (Latin for Book of Studies), a series of seventy prints plus a frontispiece published between 1807 and 1819. This is one of the few instances where he made the preliminary etched lines, then developed the tone, using mezzotint to detail an image of glacier developed from sketches made in Switzerland near the St
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