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• Author/Creator:Carrick, Robert, active 1853-1895, printmaker.
  
• Title:The blue lights / by R. Carrick ; after J.M.W. Turner, Esqre. R.A. ; shewing the progress of the printing.
  
• Publication:London : Published by Day & Son, 17 Gate Street, [1853?]
  
• Physical Description:27 prints in 1 volume : chromolithography ; volume 62 x 87 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio C N 2
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    
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• Notes:The finished print was originally published in 1852. It was based on Turner's Rockets and blue lights (close at hand)--to warn steam-boats of shoal-water.
  Title from label on cover.
  
• Summary:The YCBA copy may be unique. Consists of a series of progressive impressions showing the build-up of the chromolithograph in 27 stages. In each pair of plates is shown an impression of the single-color stone and the cumulative result (of the colors used so far), concluding with the finished print.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Genre/Form:Chromolithographs.
  Lithographs.
  
• Also listed under:Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
  Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851. Rockets and blue lights.
  Day & Son, publisher.
  Great Britain--England--London.