Description
A high stone arch spans a steep rocky chasm in The Little Devil’s Bridge, designed and etched by J. M. W. Turner and engraved by Charles Turner. The sepia print sets the crossing against sharply rising rock, making the bridge seem small within the surrounding terrain. Its clean span draws attention across the cleft, giving human construction a dramatic natural setting.
Published on March 29, 1809, the etching and mezzotint belongs to Liber Studiorum. This impression is from a later state of the same plate, preserving a distinction in printed history rather than representing a new bridge or landscape. Turner’s design gains a worked tonal presence through Charles Turner’s engraving, giving the subject another material character from a painting. The image’s interest lies in that concentration on a crossing whose human scale is encountered within a larger natural world.
Read our guide to giclée prints or browse the J. M. W. Turner collection.
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