'A Fallen Tree: ?for 'The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides'', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Fallen Tree: ?for 'The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides'

From Hesperides (1) Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCIII

Date 1805

MediumPen and ink on paper

Dimensionssupport: 171 x 262 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D05815

Turner Bequest XCIII 29 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the Hesperides (1) Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 29 Verso:

A Fallen Tree: ?for ‘The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides’ 1805

D05815
Turner Bequest XCIII 29a

Pencil and pen ink on white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 171 x 262 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This is perhaps an idea for the fallen tree in the right foreground of The Goddess of Discord Choosing the Apple of Contention in the Garden of the Hesperides exhibited at the British Institution in 1806 (Tate N00477);1 see especially folio 1 verso of the sketchbook (D05767). The motif is incorporated in the outline of the whole composition on folio 28 verso (D05813) and is explored again, with added black chalk, on folio 3 (D05770).

David Blayney Brown
October 2007

Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.44–6 no.57 (pl.67).

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.