Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Pen and ink, graphite and chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 464 × 624 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D08237
Turner Bequest CXX W
Display caption
This battle is described in antique literature and in the marbles from the Parthenon frieze, which were sent to England by Lord Elgin in 1804. Turner's sources for this composition study were probably literary rather than sculptural, but he later inspected the marbles with enthusiasm at Lord Elgin's London house.
Gallery label, August 2004
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