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The Boy of Egremond

William James Ward (English, about 1800–1840)
After: Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)

Medium/Technique Watercolor on paper
Dimensions Image: 20.0 x 22.5 cm (7 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 25.6 x 30.2 cm (10 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard
Accession Number14.951
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsWatercolors

DescriptionCopy by William Ward, son of the well-known engraver, of the watercolor by Turner in the British Museum for the engraving by R. Wallis illustrating Human Life in Rogers' Poems, 1834. Kept with Turner
Signed signed
InscriptionsLR in ink: Revised and approved. J. Ruskin. Jan. 25.76; LL in ink: This copy was made by me from Turners/ drawing in the National Gallery, Wm Ward
ProvenanceWilliam Ward; Francis Bullard; Katharine Bullard; gift to MFA, accessioned Aug. 6, 1914.