'Full-length Study of the Fighting Gladiator', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Full-length Study of the Fighting Gladiator

From Studies from the Antique and Other Sculpture

Date c.1791

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 480 x 302 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D40219

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Full-length Study of the Fighting Gladiator c.1791

D40219

Pencil and black chalk with stump on white wove paper, 440 x 277 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Like the drawing on the recto (D00068; Turner Bequest V P), this is an outline study, though here Turner has amplified it by using a stump to create areas of tone. There are stump trials to the left of the image. For other studies of the Borghese Gladiator see Tate D00069, D00070 and D00071 (Turner Bequest V R, Q, S).

The recto of this sheet is D00068 (Turner Bequest V P).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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

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Context

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Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

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