Description
Young Anglers places boys at the water’s edge near the center and right, with a tall broken bare tree rising at the left. A distant country house appears beyond them, giving their close activity a wider rural setting. Turner makes the young anglers’ outing particular through the relation between the figures, the nearby tree and the quieter buildings farther away.
Published on June 1, 1811, the etching and mezzotint was designed and etched by J. M. W. Turner and engraved by Robert Dunkarton. This impression is the second of three states in Liber Studiorum. The Metropolitan Museum places the subject probably in Marylebone Fields before its development into Regent’s Park. The work preserves an interval of open landscape within a changing London, where small-scale play and the city’s expansion belong to different moments of the same place.
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