This exhibition is organized and curated by Michael Thornton-Smith.

All works in the exhibition are selected from a private collection.


British Landscape Printmaking 1710-1880 is the story of the development and flowering of the Romantic movement and its engagement with the landscape. Printmaking became a vehicle for many artists who were constantly searching for new methods of personal expression in graphic media. This exhibition will show a progression from a formalized, arcadian view of the landscape to a more passionate involvement, with the rise of the Romantic Era and the depiction of the landscape of Great Britain and Western Europe. It is also within this time period we see the advent of the Industrial Revolution which was to produce one of the most fundamental changes in society; both urban and rural. To many it was seen as the beginnings of a commodification of the environment and the response by some of these artists was to disseminate an appreciation of nature and spirit of place. There will also be an attempt to bring into focus similarities with the dramatic changes and challenges that face us today. The story of British topographical printmaking in both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a story of transition in both techniques of the medium, engagement with the landscape and responses to dramatic changes in the environment.

The painters of this era turned to graphic media, either working independently or collaborating closely with professional engravers to create some of the most compelling and immediate artistic statements of the period. This exhibition will include engraving, etching, soft-ground etching, aquatint, lithography and mezzotint, there will be a section that describes the techniques of each process.

British Landscape Printmaking features the work of artists - J.M.W.Turner, John Constable, Thomas Girtin, Samuel Palmer, and "Norwich School" members John Sell Cotman and John Crome


List of Artists


Johannes Kip

Richard Parkes Bonington

Thomas Shotter Boys

Nathaniel and Samuel Buck

John Constable *

John Sell Cotman

Miles Edmund Cotman

John Middleton

John Ruskin

John Robert Cozens

John Crome

George Cuitt

William Hogarth

Thomas Daniell

William Daniell

Henry Davy

John Plimmer

David Charles Read

Jacob George Strutt

Joseph Farington *

Thomas Gainsborough

Philip James de Loutherbourg

The Reverend William Gilpin *

Thomas Girtin

Francis Seymour Haden

James Duffield Harding

Thomas Hearne *

Thomas Christopher Hofland *

Edward Lear

John Martin

Francis Nicholson

Samuel Palmer

Samuel Prout

William Pyne

Richard Redgrave

George Fennel Robson *

Thomas Rowlandson

Paul Sandby

Thomas Creswick

William Blake

William Bell Scott

George and John Smith

Joseph Stannard

J M W Turner

John Varley *

Richard Wilson *


* Denotes after


Saturday, May 14, 2011

J M W  Turner

The Industrial Sublime


Robert Wallis  1794 - 1878  after JMW Turner,  Dudley, Worcestershire, 1835  from Picturesque Views in England and Wales, Line-engraving.


Charles Turner  1774 - 1857 after JMW Turner,  Shields on the Tyne, 1828 from Picturesque Views in England and Wales, Mezzotint.


Frederick Christian Lewis  1779 - 1856 after JMW Turner,  Colebrook Dale, 1825, Mezzotint.



Robert Brandard - 1805 - 1862 after JMW Turner,  Between Quilleboeuf and Villequier 1834, from The Rivers of France: Turner's Annual Tour. Line-engraving.




Excursions at Home and Abroad - The Romantic Impulse


W.B Cooke 1778 - 1855 after JMW Turner,  Pevensey Bay, from Crowhurst Park 1816, from Views in Sussex. Line-engraving


Robert Wallis  1794 - 1878 after JMW Turner,  Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire  1827, from Picturesque Views in England and Wales. Line-engraving.


Robert Wallis  1794 - 1878 after JMW Turner,  Stonehenge, Wiltshire, 1829, from Picturesque Views
in England and Wales. Line-engraving.


Charles Turner  1774 - 1857 after JMW Turner,  Norham Castle on the River Tweed, 1824, from The Rivers of England, Mezzotint.


JMW Turner and Henry Dawe, The Stork and the Aqueduct, 1816-18, from the Liber Studiorum, Mezzotint.



JMW Turner and George Clint, Peat Bog, Scotland, 1812, from the Liber Studiorum, Mezzotint.



JMW Turner and William Say, Scene in the Campagna 1823, from the Liber Studiorum, Mezzotint.



James Tibbets Willmore 1800 -1863 after JMW Turner, Ullswater,  Cumberland,1835,  from Picturesque Views in England and Wales, Line-engraving.



George Cook  1781 - 1834 after JMW Turner, Teighmouth, 1815, from Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England, Line-engraving.



William Miller  1796 - 1882 after JMW Turner, Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, 1847, Line-engraving


Posted by MICHAEL THORNTON-SMITH at 6:40 PM

1 comment:

  1. UnknownDecember 22, 2012 at 5:53 PM

    Great show, great idea--and just what I'm looking for. Is there a catalogue for this exhibition?

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