Author: SHANES, ERIC
Title: Turner
Description: New York: Studio Editions/Portland House, 1990. Hardcover. ISBN: 1851704485. Hardcover is blue with gold lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Extensively illustrated with 48 full color plates, as well as b/w photographs. Joseph Mallord William Turner, aka J. M. W. Turner [1775-1851], was one of the great landscape and seascape painters of the centuries. "His output was prodigious: some 550 oil paintings, nearly 2000 highly finished watercolors, and almost 20000 sketches, studies and rough watercolors. He excelled in every branch of landscape and seascape painting, from elaborate history pictures and idealized scenes to tiny, jewel-like watercolors of contemporary life made for subsequent engraving...." Printed and bound in Italy. ISBN in book is 0517015099. Very oversized and heavy; 5#. ; Masterworks Series; Photographs; 11 1/4 x 12; 144 pages; Cover has light shelf wear and bumping. DJ has some shelf wear, bumping, rubbing/scuffing; in a mylar cover.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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