Solway Moss
Solway Moss
Engraver
Artist
Creation date
1/1/1816
Materials
mezzotint over etching
Dimensions
7 1/4 x 10 1/2 in (image)
8 3/16 x 11 3/8 in (plate)
11 5/8 x 17 5/16 in (sheet)
Credit line
Bequest of Kurt F. Pantzer
Accession number
80.758.2
Collection
Not Currently On View
Solway Moss, an unprepossessing bog between the rivers Lyne and Esk on the Scottish border, is made grand by Turner's storm clearing off.
"Turner immediately put into my hands a slight but beautiful drawing of Solway Moss. I anxiously laboured at my plate. It was done, and with the painter's aid, successfully done; and placed me at once among my brother scrapers, an artist."
-Thomas Lupton, 1848
"It is throughout eminently Turnerian. No influence of any other master, no reminiscences or traditions of any earlier school, are to be traced in it."
-W.G. Rawlinson, 1878
Turner sale, March 1873.; Miss Smith of Boughty Ferry, sold Sotheby's, London, July 25, 1949 (Lot 36).; Arthur Mitchell, Cheltenham.; Kurt Pantzer, Indianapolis.
