29. Sir Frank Short (1857-1945)
after J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)

Stonehenge at Daybreak

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Stonehenge at Daybreak

Stonehenge at Daybreak

Mezzotint, 1897, 215 x 283 mm., Hardie 26 iii/iii. Fine, rich impression in dark brown in on textured wove paper with large, full margins, signed in pencil. The image is based on a drawing by Turner intended for the Liber Studiorum. There was a prior mezzotint of the work, apparently by Charles Turner, but it was never published. Short captures the full dramatic quality of the scene, with the dim lighting on the shepherds and their flock, the speeding coach that divides the scene, and the shapes of Stonhenge silhouetted against the brilliance of a breaking dawn in a cloud filled sky.