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Shipping at the Entrance of the Medway (No. 2) (Primary Title)
Liber Studiorum (Series Title)

Frank Short, English, 1857 - 1945 (Artist)
After, Joseph Mallord William Turner, English, 1775 - 1851 (Artist)

1896
English
Works On Paper
Prints
Soft ground etching and mezzotint printed in brown ink on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 15 5/16 in. (28.26 × 38.89 cm)
Plate: 9 1/4 × 12 in. (23.5 × 30.48 cm)
Image: 8 13/16 × 11 9/16 in. (22.38 × 29.37 cm)
2017.521
Not on view
"S" in shield at lower right corner in image. Signed in graphite at lower right below image within plate line: "Frank Short".
Inscribed in plate at center below image: "THE ENTRANCE OF THE MEDWAY / From an Unpublished Drawing for the Liber Studorium in the possession of Sir J. C. Robinson". Inscribed in plate at lower right below image: "Etched & Engraved by Sir Frank Short". Inscribed in graphte at lower left corner: "H.44". Inscribed in graphite by an unidentied hand on verso: "B16/31".
Gift of Derek and Jane Allinson

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